ROUSE


Meaning of ROUSE in English

I. ˈrau̇z verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: Middle English rousen, rowsen

intransitive verb

1. obsolete

a. : to erect and shake the feathers — used especially of a hawk

b. : to stand on end

my fell of hair would … rouse , and stir as life were in't — Shakespeare

2.

a. : to become aroused from or as if from sleep : awaken , stir

laughed and dozed, then roused and read again — Vachel Lindsay

before she could rouse from this insult — Grace Kinnicut

— often used with up

from under … ragged blankets figures roused up from the dirt floor — F.V.W.Mason

b. : to gather strength : mount , intensify

our indignation rouses — Adam Smith

3. slang Australia : to speak angrily : rant , rave

transitive verb

1. archaic : to cause to break from cover

roused a hart — Charles Kingsley

2. obsolete

a. : to cause to erect and shake (the feathers) : ruffle

b. : to lift up : raise

being mounted, and both roused in their seats — Shakespeare

3.

a. : to call forth : set in motion : raise , stimulate

names in the railway time-table … first rouse romantic images in the mind of the boy — Edmund Wilson

these questions … sometimes roused charges and countercharges — Alan Valentine

b. : to kindle to intensity : excite , inflame

such wars rouse limited passions — Herbert Agar

the nobility that is in us is roused to respond — H.A.Overstreet

c. : to arouse from sleep or torpor : awaken , stir

use … histrionics to rouse her audience — Andrea Parke

the government was roused to unparalleled activity — B.E.Supple

the boat rouses wild ducks to flight — American Guide Series: Michigan

made an effort … to rouse herself from sorrow — Margaret A. Barnes

— often used with up

roused up his brothers, who were in bed — William Black

d.

(1) : to alert for action — used with out

roused out his anchor watch — K.M.Dodson

(2) : to haul strongly (as on a rope or hawser)

Synonyms: see stir

II. noun

( -s )

: an act or instance of rousing ; especially : an excited stir

a rouse of voices — Carl Sandburg

III. noun

( -s )

Etymology: alteration (resulting from incorrect division of drink carouse ) of carouse (I)

1. obsolete : drink , toast

2. archaic : carousal

IV. transitive verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: by shortening from earlier arrouse to sprinkle, bedew, from Middle English arousen, from Middle French aroser, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin adrosare, from Latin ad- + ros dew — more at rosemary

: to cure (as herring) by salting

V. ˈrüz

variant of roose

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