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rouse

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1. rouse - Noun

2. rouse - Verb

4. Rouse - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

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The 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

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