Treat roughly — disturb

Usage examples of roust.

The presence of the yak muscle meant that the big boys, the real powers in the Newark plex, the ones who had named the club, roust be meeting on the top floor.

I want you to roust Repp Taylor out of his bunk and get him up to The Homestead now!

He was not accustomed to sleeping in his clothing, and then rousting about, rumpled and unshowered, for half-a-day afterward.

The first bunch would come in then and sleep until just before dawn, when Jiggers would roust them out of their bedrolls.

If the people in charge of Meadows Center come to me, or to the fellow who takes my job next month, and says Moses is a thorn in their side, then we roust him out of the county and maybe out of the state.

The Norths and their guests had gone to a motion picture theater around the corner and seen a mystery film, which Detective Cohen, rousted from his comfort at the bar across the street, had also seen and enjoyed.

So finally the Boles had to do something about it, and they went and rousted the squatter.

He too had heerd the fearful word and his princeples too wuz rousted up.

Squad Five had already rousted two groups of upper-level homeless, fringe dwellers who had fled upstairs in terror before the thirty-strong phalanx of cops.

Rigby made him sit in the living room while the other men searched the house and rousted out Egg and Charley, who were forced to join Rip on the couch.

The pair were rousted from their thoughts by the shouts of the older son of the house as he rode back into view.

He had been rousted by rangers and game wardens more times than he could count, though less often since he had acquired the 200mm widefield autocorrelating telescope.

Half a dozen men went down before Prince Bayan came roaring in, furious at being rousted from his bed.

But I knew that the childern would be took care of now, I knew the Jonesvillians would be all rousted up and sorry enough for 'em, and would be willin' to do anything now, when it wuz some too late.

And on the 2d day the doctor see a change in the child and she began to roust a little out of that stuper, and in a week's time, she wuz a beginnin' to get well.