Definition of rouse in English:

rouse

verb raʊzraʊz

[with object]

1Cause to stop sleeping.
she was roused from a deep sleep by a hand on her shoulder
Example sentencesExamples
- When we visited his house, a national monument from the nineteenth century, the docent who let us in seemed to have been roused from a nap.
- A shaft of light moved across my eyes, rousing me from deep slumber.
- Ralph tries to rouse her out of her deep sleep, but the doctors tell him it would take a miracle to wake her.
- Joe was roused from his sleep by Azara promptly jumping on the bed and pulling on his arm.
- On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm.
- There, I roused Elroth and Rain, leading them both out.
- The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep.
- Max called, rousing Miguel from the light sleep he had fallen into.
- A weak cry roused her just as she was nodding off to sleep.
- Just about that time Jon emerged from the house bare foot and looking much like he had just been roused from sleep.
- And the cat glared back, plainly annoyed at being roused from its sound sleep.
- She didn't know what had roused her from her sleep, and she sat in bed thinking for a moment.
- Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him.
- ‘Mmm, no,’ I protested to whoever was shaking my shoulder gently, trying to rouse me from sleep.
- His blonde hair was still wet from the shower, so he shook cold droplets off onto Abbey's stomach, which immediately roused her from sleep.
- A soft knock on the door barely roused Alex from his deep sleep.
- The morning's first rays of sunlight flooded the tiny tower room, rousing Callista from her sleep.
- Haskell, who has been sleeping in the front passenger's seat, cannot be roused and seems to be dead or at least unconscious.
- What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep.
- The thick windows distorted the rays of the morning sun, but the light was still enough to rouse Jantha from her sleep.
Synonyms
wake, wake up, awaken, waken, arouse
call, get up
informal give someone a shout, knock up
1. 1.1no object Cease to sleep or to be inactive; wake up.
  she roused and looked around
  Example sentencesExamples
  Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify.
  The men roused from their sleep and prepared for battle in the early hours of the morning.
  He roused from his sleep, being perfectly attentive the moment his eyes opened.
  He smiled wryly as she roused, and tried to struggle.
  Ryan roused as the sun beamed blearily through the gathered clouds over him, light in the early hours of dawn.
  Her soldiers were sleeping and few were even rousing.
  As Jamie secured the last of the bandages, Cale finally roused.
  He set his equipment beside the campfire, patted Tyler's head enough to make him just start to rouse, then flashed a wicked grin before moving to the shadows.
  Lily found him asleep, but he roused when she came in.
  I wasn't sure if I was still dreaming or not, but as I slowly roused from the first peaceful slumber I'd had in a week, I felt a gentle hand caressing my hair.
  When he rouses, she explains the whole situation to him, her actions, and about the fire.
  Bryan was sure it was after noon when he roused from sleep, or close to it.
  As I roused from sleep again, my back stinging from sleeping on the floor, I heard footsteps on the stairs.
  Harry wakes up weary, but rouses quickly and showers, resigned to being late for the day's meetings.
  He still hadn't roused from his sleep, and she was getting worried.
  As he slowly stood up, Jeremy roused from his sleep.
  I roused from the sleep one of them had put me in and I immediately got up out of the silky sheets.
  Miguel stirred and roused from sleep as the sound of footsteps echoed in the room and the lights came on.
  He waited a few minutes to make sure his son didn't rouse then moved the book so that it lay on the bed beside him, within easy reach of Adam's hand.
  When they roused in the morning, Cecilia had 15 angry messages on her cell phone.
  Synonyms
  wake up, wake, awaken, come to, get up, get out of bed, rise, bestir oneself
  formal arise
2. 1.2 Bring out of inactivity.
  once the enemy camp was roused, they would move on the castle
  she'd just stay a few more minutes, then rouse herself and go back
  Example sentencesExamples
  Flinching as he roused himself from his musings, he looked around, ‘Huh?’
  The racket was tremendous, and eventually caused Mara to rouse himself from study and look over the rails just as a fifty-foot high pillar roared past and set the sky alight with Imperial flame.
  Here he did the opposite, focusing and rousing his inner might until his eyes sparked like chill candles and cast a faint glare before him.
  Philosophy exists ‘to rouse, to startle the human spirit to a life of constant and eager observation.’
  The teacher rouses up from her state of total oblivion.
  After half an hour or so a sexton will bustle in to prepare for Mass, and Nora will rouse herself and peek outside.
  ‘We should go to them, Klessa,’ he said, rousing me from my admiration of the knife's blade in the sunlight.
  Knock, knock, knock… the sound roused me from a world full of numbers and accounts.
  Laertes's certitude reminds me of one moment in which Hamlet tries to rouse himself to a similar passion.
  Occasionally, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book.
  I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself.
  Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
  He walked out and Mary was left standing, deep in thought, until Bertha's voice roused her. ‘Well I never!’
  ‘I will kill him if you keep rousing his will to fight,’ the deep voice said.
  A knock on the door roused me from my seat a moment later, and I was more than a little reluctant to answer it.
  Brianna's thoughts were interrupted as a knock at the door roused her.
  A quick knock on the door roused him from his deliberations, and he called out an invitation without checking the identity of the visitor.
  Any ruler who wishes to attain his noblest ends must rouse himself to follow the dictates of virtue in all his public acts.
  It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.
  Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor.
3. 1.3 Startle (game) from a lair or cover.
2Make angry or excited.
the crowds were roused to fever pitch by the drama of the race
Example sentencesExamples
- I wasn't roused by the show, and thought, as I've said, that the repeat episode was far edgier than the newer iteration.
- Since the report was written by a captain who had been roused to fits of hysterical rage by Bayley's ineptitude, some serious editing had been performed.
- Above all, they had been roused to anger by a recent decision of the Court to nationalize the railways.
- They were most easily roused in defence of their own honour and jurisdiction, quarrelling with rival law courts, the clergy, and any other institution brave enough to risk their wrath.
- I can't envision this milquetoast rousing a crowd of people, much less as the firebrand leader of a band of rebellious anarchists.
- Kate took after her mother: both were roused to argue easily, but quickly found their anger cooling.
- Folk tunes rest easy in a sharp, modern arrangement that rouses and quiets with equal success.
- Why is a huge crowd roused to frenzy by a football match?
- Whether any of his American peers will be roused to diss him back at this point seems rather unlikely though.
- We quarrelled, like any couple in love and we both had terrible tempers when we were roused.
- Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures.
Synonyms
stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, move, fire up, fire the enthusiasm of, fire the imagination of, get going, whip up, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke
incite, egg on, spur on
North American light a fire under
rare inspirit
provoke, annoy, anger, make angry, infuriate, send into a rage, madden, incense, vex, irk, work up, exasperate
informal aggravate
1. 2.1 Give rise to (an emotion or feeling)
  his evasiveness roused my curiosity
  Example sentencesExamples
  The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them.
  He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  In the worst period of my depression, I had read through the whole of Byron to try whether a poet could rouse any feeling in me.
  He was silent for some moments, and felt his hackles stir at the dread her words roused.
  Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience.
  On my return to England I made two attempts to rouse interest in the book.
  From her comb, Oskar saw she had blond hair that had begun to fall out; this image roused feelings of love in Oskar.
  This stimulation of thoughts about music can rouse those inner feelings which make perception in performance a growing and creative element.
  Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash.
  Randon's eyes were glowing eagerly, hope roused within him that they might go to the aid of Falgrice's people after all.
  Instead of rousing the readers' emotions by overt descriptions of violence, Visalam's novel concentrates more on the background to that violence.
  ‘I just hope she does not rouse the anger of those on board Starline,’ muttered Arzenes.
  At least it rouses some sort of emotion in me: anger, jealousy, the desire to hurl things.
  ‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly.
  When a poem becomes aggressive, it rouses an excitement in us, in part because we see that someone has broken their social shackles.
  Matt's initial anger began to melt away as his curiosity was roused.
  As that most acute of self-chroniclers, Henri-Frederic Amiel, put it, ‘the universe seriously studied rouses one's terror’.
  By the time she reached the bedroom door her alarm and curiosity were roused.
  ‘Of course not,’ she replied, her curiosity roused by his accent.
  Mistress Di, her curiosity roused, determined to discover the mysterious nature of their voyage.
  Synonyms
  arouse, awaken, give rise to, prompt, provoke, stimulate, pique, stir up, trigger, spark off, touch off, kindle, elicit
  literary beget, enkindle
3Stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing)
rouse the beer as the hops are introduced
4Nautical
archaic Haul (something) vigorously in the specified direction.
rouse the cable out

Derivatives

rousable

adjective

rouser

noun ˈraʊzəˈraʊzər

Similarly, the Marseillaise distilled the revolutionary and patriotic aspirations of the time into a single song that could be a powerful rouser of the masses when occasion demanded it.
Example sentencesExamples
- The event was a history-making rouser but proved to be virtually a one-night stand, since the unit folded within weeks.
- Thankfully, the lack of umpires and a couple of notorious rousers kept some traditions intact.
- The show ended not with a hit, or a populist rouser, but two new Springsteen classic songs.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally as a hawking and hunting term): probably from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin.

Rhymes

arouse, blouse, browse, carouse, Cowes, dowse, drowse, espouse, house, Howes

Definition of rouse in US English:

rouse

verbrouzraʊz

[with object]

1Bring out of sleep; awaken.
she was roused from a deep sleep by a hand on her shoulder
Example sentencesExamples
- The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep.
- The thick windows distorted the rays of the morning sun, but the light was still enough to rouse Jantha from her sleep.
- A weak cry roused her just as she was nodding off to sleep.
- The morning's first rays of sunlight flooded the tiny tower room, rousing Callista from her sleep.
- Ralph tries to rouse her out of her deep sleep, but the doctors tell him it would take a miracle to wake her.
- ‘Mmm, no,’ I protested to whoever was shaking my shoulder gently, trying to rouse me from sleep.
- When we visited his house, a national monument from the nineteenth century, the docent who let us in seemed to have been roused from a nap.
- On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm.
- Joe was roused from his sleep by Azara promptly jumping on the bed and pulling on his arm.
- Max called, rousing Miguel from the light sleep he had fallen into.
- Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him.
- His blonde hair was still wet from the shower, so he shook cold droplets off onto Abbey's stomach, which immediately roused her from sleep.
- There, I roused Elroth and Rain, leading them both out.
- She didn't know what had roused her from her sleep, and she sat in bed thinking for a moment.
- A soft knock on the door barely roused Alex from his deep sleep.
- Just about that time Jon emerged from the house bare foot and looking much like he had just been roused from sleep.
- A shaft of light moved across my eyes, rousing me from deep slumber.
- Haskell, who has been sleeping in the front passenger's seat, cannot be roused and seems to be dead or at least unconscious.
- And the cat glared back, plainly annoyed at being roused from its sound sleep.
- What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep.
Synonyms
wake, wake up, awaken, waken, arouse
1. 1.1no object Cease to sleep or to be inactive; wake up.
  she roused and looked around
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her soldiers were sleeping and few were even rousing.
  Bryan was sure it was after noon when he roused from sleep, or close to it.
  He smiled wryly as she roused, and tried to struggle.
  He waited a few minutes to make sure his son didn't rouse then moved the book so that it lay on the bed beside him, within easy reach of Adam's hand.
  When he rouses, she explains the whole situation to him, her actions, and about the fire.
  Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify.
  Lily found him asleep, but he roused when she came in.
  When they roused in the morning, Cecilia had 15 angry messages on her cell phone.
  He set his equipment beside the campfire, patted Tyler's head enough to make him just start to rouse, then flashed a wicked grin before moving to the shadows.
  Harry wakes up weary, but rouses quickly and showers, resigned to being late for the day's meetings.
  As he slowly stood up, Jeremy roused from his sleep.
  Miguel stirred and roused from sleep as the sound of footsteps echoed in the room and the lights came on.
  Ryan roused as the sun beamed blearily through the gathered clouds over him, light in the early hours of dawn.
  I roused from the sleep one of them had put me in and I immediately got up out of the silky sheets.
  As Jamie secured the last of the bandages, Cale finally roused.
  As I roused from sleep again, my back stinging from sleeping on the floor, I heard footsteps on the stairs.
  He roused from his sleep, being perfectly attentive the moment his eyes opened.
  The men roused from their sleep and prepared for battle in the early hours of the morning.
  He still hadn't roused from his sleep, and she was getting worried.
  I wasn't sure if I was still dreaming or not, but as I slowly roused from the first peaceful slumber I'd had in a week, I felt a gentle hand caressing my hair.
  Synonyms
  wake up, wake, awaken, come to, get up, get out of bed, rise, bestir oneself
2. 1.2 Startle out of inactivity; cause to become active.
  once the enemy camp was roused, they would move on the castle
  she'd just stay a few more minutes, then rouse herself and go back
  Example sentencesExamples
  Any ruler who wishes to attain his noblest ends must rouse himself to follow the dictates of virtue in all his public acts.
  The racket was tremendous, and eventually caused Mara to rouse himself from study and look over the rails just as a fifty-foot high pillar roared past and set the sky alight with Imperial flame.
  Laertes's certitude reminds me of one moment in which Hamlet tries to rouse himself to a similar passion.
  Flinching as he roused himself from his musings, he looked around, ‘Huh?’
  ‘We should go to them, Klessa,’ he said, rousing me from my admiration of the knife's blade in the sunlight.
  Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor.
  Occasionally, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book.
  The teacher rouses up from her state of total oblivion.
  ‘I will kill him if you keep rousing his will to fight,’ the deep voice said.
  It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.
  A knock on the door roused me from my seat a moment later, and I was more than a little reluctant to answer it.
  Philosophy exists ‘to rouse, to startle the human spirit to a life of constant and eager observation.’
  He walked out and Mary was left standing, deep in thought, until Bertha's voice roused her. ‘Well I never!’
  I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself.
  Here he did the opposite, focusing and rousing his inner might until his eyes sparked like chill candles and cast a faint glare before him.
  Brianna's thoughts were interrupted as a knock at the door roused her.
  After half an hour or so a sexton will bustle in to prepare for Mass, and Nora will rouse herself and peek outside.
  A quick knock on the door roused him from his deliberations, and he called out an invitation without checking the identity of the visitor.
  Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
  Knock, knock, knock… the sound roused me from a world full of numbers and accounts.
3. 1.3 Startle (game) from a lair or cover.
2Cause to feel angry or excited.
the crowds were roused to fever pitch by the drama of the race
Example sentencesExamples
- I wasn't roused by the show, and thought, as I've said, that the repeat episode was far edgier than the newer iteration.
- Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures.
- Whether any of his American peers will be roused to diss him back at this point seems rather unlikely though.
- We quarrelled, like any couple in love and we both had terrible tempers when we were roused.
- Kate took after her mother: both were roused to argue easily, but quickly found their anger cooling.
- Since the report was written by a captain who had been roused to fits of hysterical rage by Bayley's ineptitude, some serious editing had been performed.
- They were most easily roused in defence of their own honour and jurisdiction, quarrelling with rival law courts, the clergy, and any other institution brave enough to risk their wrath.
- Why is a huge crowd roused to frenzy by a football match?
- Folk tunes rest easy in a sharp, modern arrangement that rouses and quiets with equal success.
- I can't envision this milquetoast rousing a crowd of people, much less as the firebrand leader of a band of rebellious anarchists.
- Above all, they had been roused to anger by a recent decision of the Court to nationalize the railways.
Synonyms
stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, move, fire up, fire the enthusiasm of, fire the imagination of, get going, whip up, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke
provoke, annoy, anger, make angry, infuriate, send into a rage, madden, incense, vex, irk, work up, exasperate
1. 2.1 Cause or give rise to (an emotion or feeling)
  his evasiveness roused my curiosity
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly.
  He was silent for some moments, and felt his hackles stir at the dread her words roused.
  The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them.
  By the time she reached the bedroom door her alarm and curiosity were roused.
  This stimulation of thoughts about music can rouse those inner feelings which make perception in performance a growing and creative element.
  As that most acute of self-chroniclers, Henri-Frederic Amiel, put it, ‘the universe seriously studied rouses one's terror’.
  Mistress Di, her curiosity roused, determined to discover the mysterious nature of their voyage.
  Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash.
  Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience.
  ‘Of course not,’ she replied, her curiosity roused by his accent.
  Randon's eyes were glowing eagerly, hope roused within him that they might go to the aid of Falgrice's people after all.
  Instead of rousing the readers' emotions by overt descriptions of violence, Visalam's novel concentrates more on the background to that violence.
  At least it rouses some sort of emotion in me: anger, jealousy, the desire to hurl things.
  Matt's initial anger began to melt away as his curiosity was roused.
  When a poem becomes aggressive, it rouses an excitement in us, in part because we see that someone has broken their social shackles.
  On my return to England I made two attempts to rouse interest in the book.
  In the worst period of my depression, I had read through the whole of Byron to try whether a poet could rouse any feeling in me.
  From her comb, Oskar saw she had blond hair that had begun to fall out; this image roused feelings of love in Oskar.
  He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  ‘I just hope she does not rouse the anger of those on board Starline,’ muttered Arzenes.
  Synonyms
  arouse, awaken, give rise to, prompt, provoke, stimulate, pique, stir up, trigger, spark off, touch off, kindle, elicit
3Stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing)
rouse the beer as the hops are introduced
4Nautical
archaic Haul (something) vigorously in the specified direction.
rouse the cable out

Origin

Late Middle English (originally as a hawking and hunting term): probably from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin.

单词	rouse
释义	Definition of rouse in English: rouse verb raʊzraʊz [with object] 1Cause to stop sleeping. she was roused from a deep sleep by a hand on her shoulder Example sentencesExamples When we visited his house, a national monument from the nineteenth century, the docent who let us in seemed to have been roused from a nap. A shaft of light moved across my eyes, rousing me from deep slumber. Ralph tries to rouse her out of her deep sleep, but the doctors tell him it would take a miracle to wake her. Joe was roused from his sleep by Azara promptly jumping on the bed and pulling on his arm. On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm. There, I roused Elroth and Rain, leading them both out. The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep. Max called, rousing Miguel from the light sleep he had fallen into. A weak cry roused her just as she was nodding off to sleep. Just about that time Jon emerged from the house bare foot and looking much like he had just been roused from sleep. And the cat glared back, plainly annoyed at being roused from its sound sleep. She didn't know what had roused her from her sleep, and she sat in bed thinking for a moment. Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him. ‘Mmm, no,’ I protested to whoever was shaking my shoulder gently, trying to rouse me from sleep. His blonde hair was still wet from the shower, so he shook cold droplets off onto Abbey's stomach, which immediately roused her from sleep. A soft knock on the door barely roused Alex from his deep sleep. The morning's first rays of sunlight flooded the tiny tower room, rousing Callista from her sleep. Haskell, who has been sleeping in the front passenger's seat, cannot be roused and seems to be dead or at least unconscious. What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep. The thick windows distorted the rays of the morning sun, but the light was still enough to rouse Jantha from her sleep. Synonyms wake, wake up, awaken, waken, arouse call, get up informal give someone a shout, knock up 1.1no object Cease to sleep or to be inactive; wake up. she roused and looked around Example sentencesExamples Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify. The men roused from their sleep and prepared for battle in the early hours of the morning. He roused from his sleep, being perfectly attentive the moment his eyes opened. He smiled wryly as she roused, and tried to struggle. Ryan roused as the sun beamed blearily through the gathered clouds over him, light in the early hours of dawn. Her soldiers were sleeping and few were even rousing. As Jamie secured the last of the bandages, Cale finally roused. He set his equipment beside the campfire, patted Tyler's head enough to make him just start to rouse, then flashed a wicked grin before moving to the shadows. Lily found him asleep, but he roused when she came in. I wasn't sure if I was still dreaming or not, but as I slowly roused from the first peaceful slumber I'd had in a week, I felt a gentle hand caressing my hair. When he rouses, she explains the whole situation to him, her actions, and about the fire. Bryan was sure it was after noon when he roused from sleep, or close to it. As I roused from sleep again, my back stinging from sleeping on the floor, I heard footsteps on the stairs. Harry wakes up weary, but rouses quickly and showers, resigned to being late for the day's meetings. He still hadn't roused from his sleep, and she was getting worried. As he slowly stood up, Jeremy roused from his sleep. I roused from the sleep one of them had put me in and I immediately got up out of the silky sheets. Miguel stirred and roused from sleep as the sound of footsteps echoed in the room and the lights came on. He waited a few minutes to make sure his son didn't rouse then moved the book so that it lay on the bed beside him, within easy reach of Adam's hand. When they roused in the morning, Cecilia had 15 angry messages on her cell phone. Synonyms wake up, wake, awaken, come to, get up, get out of bed, rise, bestir oneself formal arise 1.2 Bring out of inactivity. once the enemy camp was roused, they would move on the castle she'd just stay a few more minutes, then rouse herself and go back Example sentencesExamples Flinching as he roused himself from his musings, he looked around, ‘Huh?’ The racket was tremendous, and eventually caused Mara to rouse himself from study and look over the rails just as a fifty-foot high pillar roared past and set the sky alight with Imperial flame. Here he did the opposite, focusing and rousing his inner might until his eyes sparked like chill candles and cast a faint glare before him. Philosophy exists ‘to rouse, to startle the human spirit to a life of constant and eager observation.’ The teacher rouses up from her state of total oblivion. After half an hour or so a sexton will bustle in to prepare for Mass, and Nora will rouse herself and peek outside. ‘We should go to them, Klessa,’ he said, rousing me from my admiration of the knife's blade in the sunlight. Knock, knock, knock… the sound roused me from a world full of numbers and accounts. Laertes's certitude reminds me of one moment in which Hamlet tries to rouse himself to a similar passion. Occasionally, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book. I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself. Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor. He walked out and Mary was left standing, deep in thought, until Bertha's voice roused her. ‘Well I never!’ ‘I will kill him if you keep rousing his will to fight,’ the deep voice said. A knock on the door roused me from my seat a moment later, and I was more than a little reluctant to answer it. Brianna's thoughts were interrupted as a knock at the door roused her. A quick knock on the door roused him from his deliberations, and he called out an invitation without checking the identity of the visitor. Any ruler who wishes to attain his noblest ends must rouse himself to follow the dictates of virtue in all his public acts. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor. 1.3 Startle (game) from a lair or cover. 2Make angry or excited. the crowds were roused to fever pitch by the drama of the race Example sentencesExamples I wasn't roused by the show, and thought, as I've said, that the repeat episode was far edgier than the newer iteration. Since the report was written by a captain who had been roused to fits of hysterical rage by Bayley's ineptitude, some serious editing had been performed. Above all, they had been roused to anger by a recent decision of the Court to nationalize the railways. They were most easily roused in defence of their own honour and jurisdiction, quarrelling with rival law courts, the clergy, and any other institution brave enough to risk their wrath. I can't envision this milquetoast rousing a crowd of people, much less as the firebrand leader of a band of rebellious anarchists. Kate took after her mother: both were roused to argue easily, but quickly found their anger cooling. Folk tunes rest easy in a sharp, modern arrangement that rouses and quiets with equal success. Why is a huge crowd roused to frenzy by a football match? Whether any of his American peers will be roused to diss him back at this point seems rather unlikely though. We quarrelled, like any couple in love and we both had terrible tempers when we were roused. Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures. Synonyms stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, move, fire up, fire the enthusiasm of, fire the imagination of, get going, whip up, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke incite, egg on, spur on North American light a fire under rare inspirit provoke, annoy, anger, make angry, infuriate, send into a rage, madden, incense, vex, irk, work up, exasperate informal aggravate 2.1 Give rise to (an emotion or feeling) his evasiveness roused my curiosity Example sentencesExamples The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them. He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy. In the worst period of my depression, I had read through the whole of Byron to try whether a poet could rouse any feeling in me. He was silent for some moments, and felt his hackles stir at the dread her words roused. Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience. On my return to England I made two attempts to rouse interest in the book. From her comb, Oskar saw she had blond hair that had begun to fall out; this image roused feelings of love in Oskar. This stimulation of thoughts about music can rouse those inner feelings which make perception in performance a growing and creative element. Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash. Randon's eyes were glowing eagerly, hope roused within him that they might go to the aid of Falgrice's people after all. Instead of rousing the readers' emotions by overt descriptions of violence, Visalam's novel concentrates more on the background to that violence. ‘I just hope she does not rouse the anger of those on board Starline,’ muttered Arzenes. At least it rouses some sort of emotion in me: anger, jealousy, the desire to hurl things. ‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly. When a poem becomes aggressive, it rouses an excitement in us, in part because we see that someone has broken their social shackles. Matt's initial anger began to melt away as his curiosity was roused. As that most acute of self-chroniclers, Henri-Frederic Amiel, put it, ‘the universe seriously studied rouses one's terror’. By the time she reached the bedroom door her alarm and curiosity were roused. ‘Of course not,’ she replied, her curiosity roused by his accent. Mistress Di, her curiosity roused, determined to discover the mysterious nature of their voyage. Synonyms arouse, awaken, give rise to, prompt, provoke, stimulate, pique, stir up, trigger, spark off, touch off, kindle, elicit literary beget, enkindle 3Stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing) rouse the beer as the hops are introduced 4Nautical archaic Haul (something) vigorously in the specified direction. rouse the cable out Derivatives rousable adjective rouser noun ˈraʊzəˈraʊzər Similarly, the Marseillaise distilled the revolutionary and patriotic aspirations of the time into a single song that could be a powerful rouser of the masses when occasion demanded it. Example sentencesExamples The event was a history-making rouser but proved to be virtually a one-night stand, since the unit folded within weeks. Thankfully, the lack of umpires and a couple of notorious rousers kept some traditions intact. The show ended not with a hit, or a populist rouser, but two new Springsteen classic songs. Origin Late Middle English (originally as a hawking and hunting term): probably from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymes arouse, blouse, browse, carouse, Cowes, dowse, drowse, espouse, house, Howes Definition of rouse in US English: rouse verbrouzraʊz [with object] 1Bring out of sleep; awaken. she was roused from a deep sleep by a hand on her shoulder Example sentencesExamples The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep. The thick windows distorted the rays of the morning sun, but the light was still enough to rouse Jantha from her sleep. A weak cry roused her just as she was nodding off to sleep. The morning's first rays of sunlight flooded the tiny tower room, rousing Callista from her sleep. Ralph tries to rouse her out of her deep sleep, but the doctors tell him it would take a miracle to wake her. ‘Mmm, no,’ I protested to whoever was shaking my shoulder gently, trying to rouse me from sleep. When we visited his house, a national monument from the nineteenth century, the docent who let us in seemed to have been roused from a nap. On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm. Joe was roused from his sleep by Azara promptly jumping on the bed and pulling on his arm. Max called, rousing Miguel from the light sleep he had fallen into. Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him. His blonde hair was still wet from the shower, so he shook cold droplets off onto Abbey's stomach, which immediately roused her from sleep. There, I roused Elroth and Rain, leading them both out. She didn't know what had roused her from her sleep, and she sat in bed thinking for a moment. A soft knock on the door barely roused Alex from his deep sleep. Just about that time Jon emerged from the house bare foot and looking much like he had just been roused from sleep. A shaft of light moved across my eyes, rousing me from deep slumber. Haskell, who has been sleeping in the front passenger's seat, cannot be roused and seems to be dead or at least unconscious. And the cat glared back, plainly annoyed at being roused from its sound sleep. What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep. Synonyms wake, wake up, awaken, waken, arouse 1.1no object Cease to sleep or to be inactive; wake up. she roused and looked around Example sentencesExamples Her soldiers were sleeping and few were even rousing. Bryan was sure it was after noon when he roused from sleep, or close to it. He smiled wryly as she roused, and tried to struggle. He waited a few minutes to make sure his son didn't rouse then moved the book so that it lay on the bed beside him, within easy reach of Adam's hand. When he rouses, she explains the whole situation to him, her actions, and about the fire. Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify. Lily found him asleep, but he roused when she came in. When they roused in the morning, Cecilia had 15 angry messages on her cell phone. He set his equipment beside the campfire, patted Tyler's head enough to make him just start to rouse, then flashed a wicked grin before moving to the shadows. Harry wakes up weary, but rouses quickly and showers, resigned to being late for the day's meetings. As he slowly stood up, Jeremy roused from his sleep. Miguel stirred and roused from sleep as the sound of footsteps echoed in the room and the lights came on. Ryan roused as the sun beamed blearily through the gathered clouds over him, light in the early hours of dawn. I roused from the sleep one of them had put me in and I immediately got up out of the silky sheets. As Jamie secured the last of the bandages, Cale finally roused. As I roused from sleep again, my back stinging from sleeping on the floor, I heard footsteps on the stairs. He roused from his sleep, being perfectly attentive the moment his eyes opened. The men roused from their sleep and prepared for battle in the early hours of the morning. He still hadn't roused from his sleep, and she was getting worried. I wasn't sure if I was still dreaming or not, but as I slowly roused from the first peaceful slumber I'd had in a week, I felt a gentle hand caressing my hair. Synonyms wake up, wake, awaken, come to, get up, get out of bed, rise, bestir oneself 1.2 Startle out of inactivity; cause to become active. once the enemy camp was roused, they would move on the castle she'd just stay a few more minutes, then rouse herself and go back Example sentencesExamples Any ruler who wishes to attain his noblest ends must rouse himself to follow the dictates of virtue in all his public acts. The racket was tremendous, and eventually caused Mara to rouse himself from study and look over the rails just as a fifty-foot high pillar roared past and set the sky alight with Imperial flame. Laertes's certitude reminds me of one moment in which Hamlet tries to rouse himself to a similar passion. Flinching as he roused himself from his musings, he looked around, ‘Huh?’ ‘We should go to them, Klessa,’ he said, rousing me from my admiration of the knife's blade in the sunlight. Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor. Occasionally, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book. The teacher rouses up from her state of total oblivion. ‘I will kill him if you keep rousing his will to fight,’ the deep voice said. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. A knock on the door roused me from my seat a moment later, and I was more than a little reluctant to answer it. Philosophy exists ‘to rouse, to startle the human spirit to a life of constant and eager observation.’ He walked out and Mary was left standing, deep in thought, until Bertha's voice roused her. ‘Well I never!’ I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself. Here he did the opposite, focusing and rousing his inner might until his eyes sparked like chill candles and cast a faint glare before him. Brianna's thoughts were interrupted as a knock at the door roused her. After half an hour or so a sexton will bustle in to prepare for Mass, and Nora will rouse herself and peek outside. A quick knock on the door roused him from his deliberations, and he called out an invitation without checking the identity of the visitor. Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor. Knock, knock, knock… the sound roused me from a world full of numbers and accounts. 1.3 Startle (game) from a lair or cover. 2Cause to feel angry or excited. the crowds were roused to fever pitch by the drama of the race Example sentencesExamples I wasn't roused by the show, and thought, as I've said, that the repeat episode was far edgier than the newer iteration. Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures. Whether any of his American peers will be roused to diss him back at this point seems rather unlikely though. We quarrelled, like any couple in love and we both had terrible tempers when we were roused. Kate took after her mother: both were roused to argue easily, but quickly found their anger cooling. Since the report was written by a captain who had been roused to fits of hysterical rage by Bayley's ineptitude, some serious editing had been performed. They were most easily roused in defence of their own honour and jurisdiction, quarrelling with rival law courts, the clergy, and any other institution brave enough to risk their wrath. Why is a huge crowd roused to frenzy by a football match? Folk tunes rest easy in a sharp, modern arrangement that rouses and quiets with equal success. I can't envision this milquetoast rousing a crowd of people, much less as the firebrand leader of a band of rebellious anarchists. Above all, they had been roused to anger by a recent decision of the Court to nationalize the railways. Synonyms stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, move, fire up, fire the enthusiasm of, fire the imagination of, get going, whip up, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke provoke, annoy, anger, make angry, infuriate, send into a rage, madden, incense, vex, irk, work up, exasperate 2.1 Cause or give rise to (an emotion or feeling) his evasiveness roused my curiosity Example sentencesExamples ‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly. He was silent for some moments, and felt his hackles stir at the dread her words roused. The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them. By the time she reached the bedroom door her alarm and curiosity were roused. This stimulation of thoughts about music can rouse those inner feelings which make perception in performance a growing and creative element. As that most acute of self-chroniclers, Henri-Frederic Amiel, put it, ‘the universe seriously studied rouses one's terror’. Mistress Di, her curiosity roused, determined to discover the mysterious nature of their voyage. Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash. Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience. ‘Of course not,’ she replied, her curiosity roused by his accent. Randon's eyes were glowing eagerly, hope roused within him that they might go to the aid of Falgrice's people after all. Instead of rousing the readers' emotions by overt descriptions of violence, Visalam's novel concentrates more on the background to that violence. At least it rouses some sort of emotion in me: anger, jealousy, the desire to hurl things. Matt's initial anger began to melt away as his curiosity was roused. When a poem becomes aggressive, it rouses an excitement in us, in part because we see that someone has broken their social shackles. On my return to England I made two attempts to rouse interest in the book. In the worst period of my depression, I had read through the whole of Byron to try whether a poet could rouse any feeling in me. From her comb, Oskar saw she had blond hair that had begun to fall out; this image roused feelings of love in Oskar. He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy. ‘I just hope she does not rouse the anger of those on board Starline,’ muttered Arzenes. Synonyms arouse, awaken, give rise to, prompt, provoke, stimulate, pique, stir up, trigger, spark off, touch off, kindle, elicit 3Stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing) rouse the beer as the hops are introduced 4Nautical archaic Haul (something) vigorously in the specified direction. rouse the cable out Origin Late Middle English (originally as a hawking and hunting term): probably from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin.
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