Waken vs Arouse - What's the difference?
waken | arouse | Related terms |
(lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
(lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
To stimulate feelings.
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*:“?My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “?incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat?: “?I prefer a farandole to a nocturne?; I'd rather have a painting than an etching?; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;.”
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To wake from sleep or stupor.
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Waken is a related term of arouse.
As verbs the difference between waken and arouse
is that waken is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir while arouse is to stimulate feelings.waken
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(en verb)arouse
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(en-verb)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.}}