Arouse or rouse?
Rouse and arouse are both used in formal contexts. Arouse means ‘make someone have a particular feeling’: …

Examples of arousing

arousing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They must do this actively if not preemptively because, according to agency theory, they are trying to avoid arousing oversight mechanisms.
The anxiety arousing effect of taboo words in bilinguals.
The intense stimulation and threat attendant to partner violence is highly arousing and even terrifying for the child witness.
Evidence suggests that personalizing modeled experiences is more vicariously arousing than perspective-taking.
Further, the maltreatment described in these studies is often a regular occurrence to which the child could habituate rather than highly arousing single events.
In the open air, situations arousing anger do not often occur, and the temper is brief.
Indeed, more robust activity in the amygdala often accompanies the presentation of aversive stimuli that are more arousing than the corresponding appetitive stimuli.
Leaders were o aware of the contradictions, and sensitive to arousing skepticism in the nation.
A measure of the interestingness of the current situation is then calculated based on a psychobiological model of preference to arousing stimuli.
The insults serve to avoid arousing suspicion with the others.
For more than 250 years starting in about 1600, the word 'incentive' meant 'inciting or arousing to feeling or action, provocative, exciting'.
Children who expect an unsupportive response, however, may restrict their emotional expression and demonstrate difficulty coping with emotionally arousing situations.
These sounds provide a way to create meaningful symbolic systems by arousing associations with the listener's sonic experience.
Adolescents are increasingly exposed to an alluring array of stimulating and arousing activities that are often accessible in their own bedrooms.
By filling such niches, refugees contributed to the city's growth without arousing local animosity.
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