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anregen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arouse verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
  • excite verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  • inflame verb To make a feeling, situation, or conflict more intense or heated.
  • inspire verb To fill someone with the motivation or creative energy to do something.

Senses

anregen is used for these senses in English:

  • arouse (transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.
  • excite (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  • inflame (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
  • titillate To stimulate or excite sensually.

arouse — full definition

  1. verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
  2. verb To sexually excite someone.
  3. verb To wake someone from sleep.

excite — full definition

  1. verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  2. verb In physics, to push an electron up to a higher energy level, or to energize a magnet so it produces a field.

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