To excite to activity, to stimulate (a bodily function, ‘humour’, etc.): also with the person as object. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring (something) into being; to set (something) in motion; spec. to bring about or make more intense (a wind, storm, fire, etc.).

To rouse from rest or inaction; to excite to movement or activity.

To rouse into activity, arouse, excite, stir up.

figurative. To rouse from a state resembling sleep; to stir up, excite, make active. Cf. awaken, v.

transitive. To rouse, stir up, excite (a person, emotion, etc.); to incite to action.

To bring into activity, to excite, arouse.

To rouse to action, activity, alertness, or liveliness. Const. to, into. Also with up.

To rouse to activity, alertness, or liveliness; to stir up, excite. Const. to, †into; to (do something). Also with up. Cf. wake, v. 9.

To rouse to action, activity, or emotion; to rouse from indifference or sloth; to incite, instigate, stimulate: cf. sense 7.

To inflame, excite (the mind, passions, etc.); to incite to action.

With adverbs: To drive, force, or move sharply and suddenly off, out, up; †to cut off (some one's head). Also dialect to drive or ‘ferret’ out…

To stir up, ‘to put into vigorous action’ (Johnson). transitive. To rouse into activity, make active. to bestir one's stumps (obsolete): to move…

With up, away, †in.

transitive. Frequently with up. To bestir, stir, rouse (a person or thing). Also reflexive: to stir oneself (sometimes as a command: cf. 3b). Now rare…

With up: To stir up, arouse by tickling, excite to action.

To excite, stir up, or stimulate.

To move (a limb or member); chiefly, now almost always, in negative or similar expressions: to make any or the slightest movement with.

transitive. To rouse up, awaken.

transitive. To stir up, incite to action, spur on; to bring to a state of excitement or heightened emotion. Also with up. Without construction.

To raise (a person) out of inactivity; to exalt the condition of.

transitive. To arouse (a thought or feeling); to excite.

transitive. To arouse, stimulate, or activate (a latent or inert property). Now rare.

To raise or stir up (a person) from sleep or inactivity; to awaken.

transitive. To push or stir with the point of a stick, a finger, a foot, etc.; = poke, v.1 1; to stir up by this means (in quot. 1684 figurative…

transitive. To rout, turn, or drive (a person or animal) out of a place; to get (a person) out of bed; to rouse, awaken. Also: to stir up. Frequently…

To rouse up with or as with a shake.

figurative, esp. in phrase to galvanize toor into life (also to galvanize life into).

To give forth an indistinct sound by the blending of many voices, etc.; hence (colloquial) to be in a condition of busy activity, to be all astir. to…

transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To rouse from apathy, stir up; to encourage, inspire to action.

figurative and in extended use. Chiefly with up. transitive. To cause to move or progress quickly or with increasing speed; to stir up; to kick-start.