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Definition: AROUSING |
AROUSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Arouse |
Date "AROUSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It was arousingviolently arousing. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) | |
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Books | |
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| "University of Tampa spire" by raznov Commentary: "Dusk shot of the spire at the University of Tampa. This was as close as I could get without arousing the suspicion of campus rent-a-cops." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Iris Murdoch | Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | With a new Korean government policy prohibiting bottom ash from being dumped into landfills in place, this by-product is rapidly accumulating in the areas adjacent to the Seoul metropolitan area's incineration facilities, threatening the environment and arousing the concern of local residents. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | Rapid expansion of cellular services has surpassed expectations while arousing controversy over the sale of a second cellular license. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AROUSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.31% of the time. "AROUSING" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.31% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.59% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AROUSING": aggression-arousing, non-arousing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
arousing | 24 |
arousing woman | 16 |
arousing story | 15 |
arousing free story | 6 |
arousing sexually | 5 |
arousing a man | 3 |
arousing sex story | 3 |
arousing picture | 3 |
arousing picture sexually | 3 |
arousing foreplay technique | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AROUSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 激起 (Arouse, aroused). (various references) | |
German | erwachend (awakenings), aufweckend (waking), aufrüttelnd (awakening). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקיץ (awakening), מעיר (awakening, remarking), מעורר (alarm clock, awaking, excitor, stimulant, stirring). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggugahan (awakening). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 作興 (promoting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さっこう (promoting). (various references) | |
Korean | 깨움 (Awakening). (various references) | |
Manx | greeshagh (arouse, arouse passions, ember, vibrant), dooishtagh (evocative, vigilant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arousingay.(various references) | |
Thai | ตื่นตัว (awake). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AROUSING": carousing, rearousing. (additional references) | |
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"AROUSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aloussine, araising, araucana, Ardouin, areising, brousing, Ragossnig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AROUSING" (pronounced erou"zing) |
| 5 | er ou" z i ng | carousing. |
| 4 | -ou" z i ng | bowsing, browsing, espousing, housing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: giaours, origans, ourangs, rousing, signora, soaring, souring. | |
-2 letters: argons, arsino, giaour, girons, grains, grison, groans, groins, guanos, guiros, norias, oaring, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, ourang, rasing, rosing, rugosa, sarong, signor, soring, souari, unrigs. | |
-3 letters: agios, agons, airns, argon, argus, arson, auris, gains, garni, gaurs, girns, giron, giros, gnars, gonia, grain, grans, grins, groan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: carousing, ignoramus, origanums, rigaudons, savouring, upsoaring. | |
+2 letters: ausforming, gramineous, granulosis, migrainous, neuroglias, outraising, outsoaring, outstaring, purgations, rearousing, sporangium, ungracious, viraginous. | |
+3 letters: authorising, coruscating, fairgrounds, farraginous, figurations, gourmandise, gourmandism, graduations, granivorous, ignoramuses, jaguarondis, nonsurgical, outbargains, outsavoring, outsmarting, outstarting, outswearing, oversaucing, regulations, sporulating, squadroning, subregional, subrogating, subrogation, surrogating, unreasoning, warehousing. | |
+4 letters: corrugations, discouraging, expurgations, fulgurations, gastrulation, gourmandises, gourmandisms, gourmandizes, graciousness, granulations, gratulations, housewarming, inaugurators, objurgations, outorganizes, outsparkling, outspreading, oversanguine, pelargoniums, popularising, roughcasting, spermagonium, subrogations, sugarcoating, superorganic, surfboarding, ungraciously, urbanologies, urbanologist, vainglorious. | |
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