noun
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An arousal.
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The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
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To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
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To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
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to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
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To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
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To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
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to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
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To pull by main strength; to haul.
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To raise; to make erect.
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(when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
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He roused on her for being late yet again.
Examples of rouse in a Sentence
When I sleep normally, it takes a lot more than that to rouse me.
Only when the moon was halfway across the sky did he rouse himself.
Natasha asked quickly in a whisper, afraid to move lest she should rouse the dozing baby.
He was quiet long enough to rouse her interest, and she glanced up to determine the cause of his silence.
For many years he made the aspects of life at sea his particular theme, and he contrived to rouse the patriotic enthusiasm of the Danish public as it had never been roused before.
While holding this commission, he had the humiliation of witnessing from a distance the sack of Rome and the imprisonment of Clement, without being able to rouse the perfidious duke of Urbino into activity.
The social and political decrepitude of Italy, where patriotism was unknown, and only selfishness survived of all the motives that rouse men to action, found its representative and exponent in Guicciardini.
Having failed to rouse Spain and Venice against the Turks, Gregory attempted to form a general coalition against the Protestants.
He then undertook a political campaign to rouse the republican party throughout France, which culminated in a speech at Romans (September 18, 1878) formulating its programme.
Rouse's The Year's Work in Classical Studies (1907); C. Pascal, Studii di antichitd e Mitologia (1896).
In Tuscany particularly the Inquisition made persistent efforts to suppress them; Florence afflicted them with severe laws, but failed to rouse the populace against them.
If you suspect someone has swallowed a poison or an overdose of drugs and they appear to be unconscious, try to rouse them.
Later, she indicates from the stage - while obviously trying to rouse herself - she'd had too much tequila the night before.
The cock bird, when, to use the fenman's expression, he has not "his show on," and the hen at all seasons, offer no very remarkable deviation from ordinary sandpipers; outwardly there is nothing, except the unequal size of the two sexes, to rouse suspicion of any abnormal peculiarity.
Anything that suggests a tinker always seems to rouse the suspicions of a Scottish policeman.
Emin tends not to rouse such negative passions elsewhere in Europe or in the United States.
She actually had no intent of inviting him to the house, but thought it might rouse a reaction.
Nerves made her movements clumsy while her mind sought some forgotten information about a threat great enough to rouse the Undersecretary and his staff in the middle of the night.
The plot was forced on prematurely by the suspicions excited at court, and the rash attempt to rouse the city of London (8th of February 1601) proved a complete fiasco.
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The powerful wrens, cheerful chaffinches, delicate sparrows and whistling starlings then weave in melodies, sweet enough to rouse the sun.
A low key approach may fail to rouse the interest of a potential Vandal.
The argument is that Gauden had prepared the book to inspire sympathy with the king by a representation of his pious and forgiving disposition, and so to rouse public opinion against his execution.
In fact it was the cry of "tyrant city" which went furthest to rouse public opinion in Greece against Athens and to bring on the Peloponnesian War which ruined the Athenian empire (431-404).
Third, and worst of all, he had prefixed a preface to the sixth volume, in which he went out of his way to rouse the enmity of the men on whom depended his annual re-election to the post of examiner for the Polytechnic school.
But for a young cast to rouse such strong emotions in an audience is something very special indeed.
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Around 30 BC she began to rouse only on the night of the full moon.
Later, she indicates from the stage - while obviously trying to rouse herself - she 'd had too much tequila the night before.
A low key approach may fail to rouse the interest of a potential vandal.
To tell if someone is either sleeping or in a coma, pinch the person's skin or do something else to try to rouse that person.
The tingling feeling experienced when hands begin to wake up can rouse you from sleep.
However, it is known that when infants sleep on their backs they are more prone to arousal, and SIDS is often thought to involve a failure to rouse from sleep.
If your little landlubber is into pirates, then he'll likely enjoy a pirate alarm clock to rouse him from his slumber.
Some people prefer to travel light yet still long for a reliable and super-cool alarm clock to rouse them from their well-earned slumber.
Thus spurred to renewed efforts against the Hussites, the elector was endeavouring to rouse the German princes to aid him in prosecuting this war when the Saxon army was almost annihilated at Aussig on the 16th of August 1426.
His letters and his conversation were always full of whatever could awaken a healthy interest, and free from anything that might rouse illfeeling.
But why should we care a hoot about what Rouse thinks?
In 1647 he was staying at the home of Lady Rouse of Rouse-Lench, and there, in much physical weakness, wrote a great part of his famous work, The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650).
He returned more resolved than ever to do his utmost to rouse the civilized world to put down the desolating slave-trade.
His intimacy with foreigners and his imitation of their ways were sufficient to rouse fanaticism and create dissatisfaction.
He had just time to create a favorable impression by his first proceedings, when his brother Robert, who had returned from Palestine and resumed possession of Normandy, landed at Portsmouth to claim the crown and to rouse his partisans among the English baronage.
Years before the danger from Macedon was urgent, Demosthenes had begun the work of his life, - the effort to lift the spirit of Athens, to revive the old civic loyalty, to rouse the city into taking that place and performing that part which her own welfare as well as the safety of Greece ca uses.
Attendance at the March lecture surprised our lecturer, Clive Rouse, who considered the subject rather abstruse.
In 1809 it was the scene of the death of Ferdinand von Schill, in his gallant though ineffectual attempt to rouse his countrymen against the French invaders.
With other disclosures regarding German machinations against the United States it materially contributed to rouse American national feeling, which found expression in the decisive votes of the Senate and the House of Representatives on April 5 in favour of declaring war upon Germany.
They soon reached Rome, and a Dominican monk, Prierius, wrote a reply in defence of the papal power, in an insolent tone which first served to rouse Luther's suspicion of the theology of the papal Curia.
After this repulse, the royalists, under Stofflet and La Rochejaquelein, attempted to rouse the Cotentin and crossed the Loire.