herättää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- arouse verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
- awake adj Not asleep; conscious.
- awaken verb To cause to become awake.
- conjure verb To perform tricks that appear to be magic.
- cultivate verb To prepare and use land for growing crops.
- elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
- evoke verb To bring a feeling, memory, or image to someone's mind.
- excite verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
- generate verb To produce or create something, especially as an effect or output.
- inflame verb To make a feeling, situation, or conflict more intense or heated.
- stir verb To mix a liquid or substance by moving an object like a spoon through it.
- wake verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.
Senses
herättää is used for these senses in English:
- awake (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- awake (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- conjure (transitive, archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
- cultivate (figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
- elicit To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- evoke (transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
- excite (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- generate (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
arouse — full definition
- verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
- verb To sexually excite someone.
- verb To wake someone from sleep.
awake — full definition
- adj Not asleep; conscious.
- verb To stop sleeping, or to wake someone else up.