vi to awake from sleep or repose.
2. rouse ·noun a bumper in honor of a toast or health.
3. rouse ·noun a carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
4. rouse ·v to raise; to make erect.
5. rouse ·vi to get or start up; to rise.
6. rouse ·v to put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
7. rouse ·v to wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
8. rouse ·vi to be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
9. rouse ·v to cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
10. rouse ·vi & ·vt to pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
11. rouse ·v to excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.