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say it: ur-OWZ
arouse is a verb meaning "call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)". It is pronounced /ɚˈaʊz/ — ur-OWZ. It carries 7 recorded senses.
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
“raise the specter of unemployment”
“he conjured wild birds in the air”
“call down the spirits from the mountain”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for arouse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.