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单词 rouse
释义 rouse
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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