Crossword clues for roused
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rouse \Rouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roused (rouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rousing.] [Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hre['o]san to fall, rush. Cf. Rush, v.]
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To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
--Spenser.Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
--Pope. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom.
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To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea.
--Milton. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.]
--Spenser. Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rouse)
Usage examples of "roused".
Conan faced them, not a naked man roused mazed and unarmed out of deep sleep to be butchered like a sheep, but a barbarian wide-awake and at bay, partly armored, and with his long sword in his hand.
He supposed that the noise of the fray had at last roused the palace, and that the loyal guards were upon him, though even in that moment it seemed strange that his hardened rogues should scream so terribly in their flight.
The girls slept on, but one, who roused, yawned, stretched her slender figure and blinked about.
Foes of flesh and blood he did not fear, however great the odds, but any hint of the supernatural roused all the dim monstrous instincts of fear that are the heritage of the barbarian.
Laying her head in her rounded arms she wept, until distant shouts of ribald revelry roused her to her own danger.
He drank, mechanically at first, then with a suddenly roused interest.
With the coming of day they sank into deep sleep, to be roused again only by the coming of night, which is akin to death.
And her first action in Number Fourteen had been to take Roused shoes out of the cupboard and look at them.
Russian bravura roused them for a moment, and they waited hopefully for what might come next.
He rested a while then roused himself as another head bobbed up beside him.
Freshly roused from his bunk the Dutchman wore no wig on his shaven head but his fine pointed moustaches showed him to be a man of fashion.
They all lay there gasping and panting, to be roused at last by a tingling peal of laughter.
They had come to the stableyard and Fredricus roused himself on the seat of the carriage.
The door closed behind the pair and the watchers roused themselves, as though they had awakened from a nightmare and resumed their tasks.
It was a mingling of wild flowers and a warm kittenish musk that roused him strangely and added to his sense of well-being.