rouse

To rouse is to bring someone out of sleep, or to stir up an emotion.

(verb)

  1. When you wake someone up, this is an example of a time when you rouse him.
  2. When you cause someone to become active who wasn't, this is an example of a time when you rouse him.
  3. When you cause someone to feel angry, this is an example of a time when you rouse anger.

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See rouse in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb roused, rousing

  1. to cause (game) to rise from cover, come out of a lair, etc.; stir up to flight or attack
  2. to stir up, as to anger or action; excite
  3. to cause to come out of a state of sleep, repose, unconsciousness, etc.; wake
  4. Naut. to pull with force, esp. by hand; haul

Origin: LME rowsen: orig. technical term in hawking & hunting, hence prob. < Anglo-Fr or OFr

intransitive verb

  1. to rise from cover, etc.: said of game
  2. to come out of a state of sleep, repose, etc.; wake
  3. to become active

noun

  1. the act of rousing
  2. a violent stir

Related Forms:

noun

  1. a drink of liquor
  2. a carousal

Origin: aphetic for carouse (from mistaking drink carouse as drink a rouse)

See rouse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb roused roused, rous·ing, rous·es
verb, transitive
  1. To arouse from slumber, apathy, or depression.
  2. To excite, as to anger or action; stir up. See Synonyms at provoke.
verb, intransitive
  1. To awaken.
  2. To become active.
noun
The act or an instance of arousing.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English rousen, to shake the feathers: used of a hawk

Origin: , perhaps from Old French reuser, ruser, to repel, push back

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *recūsāre

Origin: , from Latin, to refuse; see recuse

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Related Forms:

  • rousˈer noun

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