| 单词 | rouse |
| 释义 | rouse (once / 189 pages) v When someone calls out "rise and shine," they are trying to rouse you, to make you wake up. It's thought that the word rouse was originally a 15th-century term used by hawkers for the way the birds shook out their feathers when agitated. That gives a nice mental picture to the word, and it does fit: rouse means to become awake, excited, or just plain keyed up, like those birds ruffling their feathers. Consider that when first roused in the morning, many people have to shake themselves to get ready to face the day. WORD FAMILYrouse: roused, rouser, rouses, rousing+/rouser: rousers/rousing: rousingest, rousingly, rousings USAGE EXAMPLES“It was a slap in the face, man,” the friend, Ronnie Rouse, told Jones. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) Well, like a lot of what Palmer says, this is smart and witty and rousing. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) “Here at Pearl Harbor, where America fought its first battle of the Second World War, it roused a nation,” Obama said. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1v cause to become awake or conscious He was roused by the drunken men in the street Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken cause to sleep make fall asleep reawaken awaken once again bring around, bring back, bring round, bring toreturn to consciousness callrouse somebody from sleep with a call resuscitate, revivecause to regain consciousness alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v become active Syn|Hyper bestir be active, move be in a state of action 3v cause to be agitated, excited, or roused Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize make calm or still hype up, psych up get excited or stimulated bothermake nervous or agitated pothermake upset or troubled electrifyexcite suddenly and intensely disturb, trouble, upset move deeply 4v force or drive out Syn|Hypo|Hyper drive out, force out, rout out chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings hunt chase away, with as with force smoke outdrive out with smoke displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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