1. rouse - Noun
2. rouse - Verb
4. Rouse - Proper noun
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
To raise; to make erect.
To get or start up; to rise.
To awake from sleep or repose.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks Source: Internet
He was roused by the drunken men in the street Source: Internet
Please wake me at 6 AM. Source: Internet
He finally bestirred himself Source: Internet
The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M. Source: Internet
Criticised by W.H.D. Rouse, "The Double Axe and the Labyrinth" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21 (1901), pp. 268-274, noting the reappearance of the same inscribed symbols at the newly discovered palace a Phaistos (p. 273). Source: Internet