destare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to wake up
  2. (transitive) to stimulate or agitate
  3. (transitive) to arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
de‧stà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/desˈta.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *deexcitāre, derived from Latin excitāre (“to call forth, to rouse”).

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