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aroused

adj
/əˈɹaʊzd/

Definitions

  1. Sexually excited

    Sexually excited; randy, lustful.

    • The feminist writer and academic Marina Warner believes the unexpectedly wide appeal of this explicit fiction could be a sign of how difficult people now find it to feel aroused in an era when sex and nudity have become so commonplace.
    • You can concentrate on one that you already know well and one that you know will cause you to become very aroused.

  2. Stirred up, agitated.

    • Indeed, payers of local property taxes have become the most aroused group in the nation. In the last two years, property owners have voted down bond issues of all stripes even those for schools.

  3. simple past and past participle of arouse

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aroused. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aroused. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at aroused

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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