To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
To cause to become aware.
To call to a sense of sin.
To cause to become awake.
To stop sleeping; awake.
To raise the intensity, excitement, tension, etc., of.
To produce nervous tension in.
To raise the pitch of.
To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.