What does arousing mean?
Arousing means present participle and gerund of arouse.
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/əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of arouse.
I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.
There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings, mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy.
These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity.
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Arousing means present participle and gerund of arouse.
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I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.
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