Crossword clues for rouse
rouse
- Retired men need purpose to get up
- Provoke complaint — starter missing
- Dig out of bed with tip of spade and rake over
- Trick is introducing oxygen to wake from sleep
- Get out of bed
- Shake up
- Force out
- Wake from sleep
- Snap out of it
- Play reveille
- Shake out of slumber
- Provoke, as to anger
- Incite to anger
- Cause to wake
- Bring to alertness
- Bring out of slumber
- Stir the soul
- Shake out of dreamland
- Provoke, excite
- Give someone a shake, say
- Effectively play reveille
- Cause to stir
- Cause to awaken
- Awaken from bed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rouse \Rouse\ (rouz or rous), v. i. & t. [Perhaps the same word as rouse to start up, ``buckle to.''] (Naut.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Rouse \Rouse\ (rouz), n. [Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. r[=u]ss, Sw. rus, G. rauchen, and also E. rouse, v.t., rush, v.i. Cf. Row a disturbance.]
A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn.
--Tennyson.
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.
Rouse \Rouse\, v. i.
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To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.]
Night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
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To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed.
--Pope. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., intransitive probably from Anglo-French or Old French reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, but like many hawking terms it is of obscure origin. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s. Related: Roused; rousing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 an arousal 2 (context military British and Canada English) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often ''the rouse''. n. 1 an arousal 2 (context military British and Canada English) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often ''the rouse''. vb. 1 to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. 2 (senseid en provoke) To provoke (someone) to anger or action. 3 To cause to start from a covert or lurking place. 4 (context nautical English) To pull by main strength; to haul 5 (context obsolete English) To raise; to make erect. Etymology 2
n. 1 an official ceremony over drinks 2 A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. 3 wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
WordNet
v. become active; "He finally bestirred himself" [syn: bestir]
force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." [syn: rout out, drive out, force out]
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm]
cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Rouse may refer to:
- Rouse (surname), people with the surname Rouse
- The Rouse, a military bugle call
- Rouse Islands, Antarctica
- Rouse, California, a census-designated place
- Rouse, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Rouse number, a non-dimensional number in fluid dynamics
- Rouse model in polymer physics
- Rouse Baronets, an extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of England
- The Rouse Company, a US real estate developer
Rouse is an English-language surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Alan Rouse, British climber
- Alfred Rouse, British convicted murderer
- Andy Rouse, English racing driver
- Charlie Rouse, American jazz saxophonist
- Christopher Rouse (composer), American composer
- Christopher Rouse (editor), Academy Award-winning film editor
- Curtis Rouse, American football player
- Fred Rouse, American football player
- Hunter Rouse, hydraulician
- Irving Rouse, American academic
- James W. Rouse, American activist and philanthropist
- Jeff Rouse, American swimmer
- Josh Rouse, American singer-songwriter
- Mikel Rouse, American composer
- Owen Thomas Rouse (1843–1919), American jurist
- Pete Rouse, American political advisor
- Prince E. Rouse, physicist of Rouse theory fame
- Richard Rouse III, American game designer and author
- Robbie Rouse, American football player
- Russell Rouse, Academy Award-winning American screenwriter
- Simon Rouse, English actor
- W. H. D. Rouse, English classical scholar and teacher
- W. W. Rouse Ball, English mathematician
- Willard Rouse, American real estate developer
Usage examples of "rouse".
On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.
I saw nothing of the amphitheatre, nothing of the spectators, nothing but her, till, at the sudden shout from the crowd, I roused myself with a start.
And a conception of Anarchism, which, on one hand, threatens every vested interest, and, on the other, holds out a vision of a free and noble life to be won by a struggle against existing wrongs, is certain to rouse the fiercest opposition, and bring the whole repressive force of ancient evil into violent contact with the tumultuous outburst of a new hope.
The Wanderer To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires and architraves To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut, And roused by street-cries in strange tongues when day Flooded with gold some domed metropolis, Between new towers to waken and new bliss Spread on his pillow in a wondrous way: These were his joys.
De Flotte in one district, Victor Hugo in another, Schoelcher in a third, are actively urging on the combat, and expose their lives a score of times, but none feel themselves supported by any organized body: and moreover the attempt of the Royalists in the Tenth Arrondissement has roused apprehension.
Cabinet ministers and diplomatic liaisons, senior advisers and planetary rulers, roused from sleep, called away from other duties, torn away from their private business to gather in front of monitors on every planet from Bespin to Byss.
He roused himself with the reminder that only those few paintings Blooded as Dioniso could harm him.
Seeklat intended to rouse the remaining Ashanti tribesmen, to have them ready when Bronden returned.
The best speaker of the three was Sallust, who followed the rousing speeches of Bursa and Pompeius Rufus with an even better one.
Just as yesterday he roused the troop by crashing into their nests, hooting, kicking, and slapping.
The loss of Mantua, the possession of which had cost him so many sacrifices, roused his indignation to so high a pitch that whenever the subject was mentioned he could find no words to express his rage.
It was three days before Andrew Jackson Markland roused enough to know that he had come home.
The skipper of our cargo boat roused me just as we turned, putting under my sleepy nostrils a handful of toasted beans on a leaf, and a small cup full of something that was not coffee, but smelt as good as that matutinal beverage always does to the tired traveller.
Jenny, with Melia, Eliza, and Charlotte, did what they could for the exhausted Dorcas but she was heartbroken by the loss of her child, and despite all their attempts to console her she slipped into unconsciousness from which it was impossible to rouse her.
If he called for something to settle his nerves, the night-staff would bring him whatever he asked, or rouse his own servants at his request, but poor Moni and Taigi had probably been roused out of bed to bewildering questions-Did you shoot at the paidhi?