transcription, транскрипция: [ raʊz ]
( rouses, rousing, roused)
1.
If someone rouses you when you are sleeping or if you rouse , you wake up. ( LITERARY )
Hilton roused him at eight-thirty by rapping on the door...
When I put my hand on his, he stirs but doesn’t quite rouse.
= wake
VERB : V n , V
2.
If you rouse yourself , you stop being inactive and start doing something.
She seemed to be unable to rouse herself to do anything...
He roused himself from his lazy contemplation of the scene beneath him...
VERB : V pron-refl to-inf , V pron-refl from n
3.
If something or someone rouses you, they make you very emotional or excited.
He did more to rouse the crowd there than anybody else...
Ben says his father was good-natured, a man not quickly roused to anger or harsh opinions.
VERB : V n , be V-ed to n
• rous‧ing
...a rousing speech to the convention in support of the president.
= stirring
ADJ : usu ADJ n
4.
If something rouses a feeling in you, it causes you to have that feeling.
It roused a feeling of rebellion in him...
VERB : V n