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roused

verb (used with object)

to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.

to stir or incite to strong indignation or anger.

to cause (game) to start from a covert or lair.

Nautical. to pull by main strength; haul.

verb (used without object)

to come out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, apathy, depression, etc.

to start up from a covert or lair, as game.

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noun

a rousing.

a signal for rousing; reveille.

Origin:
1480–90 in sense “(of a hawk) to shake the feathers”; 1525–35 for def. 3; origin uncertain

Related forms

rous·ed·ness

[rou-zid-nis] , noun

rous·er, noun

un·roused, adjective

Synonyms
1. arouse, stir, excite, animate, stimulate, awaken, kindle, inflame, fire. 1, 2. See incite. 2. provoke, anger.

Antonyms
1, 2. lull, calm, pacify.

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Example Sentences

In the middle of the night, he was roused violently from sleep.

They roused violent protests, which eventually forced the government to change its mind.

But animals roused from hibernation by warmer temperatures in late winter or early spring may find nature's larder bare.

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In the middle of the night, he was roused violently from sleep.

They roused violent protests, which eventually forced the government to change its mind.

But animals roused from hibernation by warmer temperatures in late winter or early spring may find nature's larder bare.

Maybe you were in a cab leaving the airport when the skyline first roused itself into view.

The government has been roused to convene all the main political parties for a national anti-terrorism conference.

The land had roused a fascination in me, an engagement with my surroundings.

The climb roused me from a lethargy induced by too little sleep.

Perhaps it is because they are great queuers, roused to special fury by anyone cutting in line.

Edison sank into a stupor today from which he could be roused only with difficulty.

Archaeological evidence suggests that when roused it is even more destructive.

The propulsive force, flowing pulse and humane themes of his dances roused the audiences to a fever pitch.

The emotions roused by the fight for the chocolate-maker go far beyond the business specifics, however.

Europe was being roused and roiled by forces of change and the world would never again be the same.

Having sniffed, the women were roused and asked to report.

People were roused from their slumbers and fled to the open.

People in midmeal around the long communal tables were roused to action.

Tashi is roused out of his deep mediation and brought back to his monastery by his fellow monks.

Schwarz's players played the music as if they had been roused from a sound sleep and dragged onstage.

Grieb had been roused by a similar wildfire warning, and he said he spent hours cramming as many of his belongings as he could.

Coetzee is roused less by aesthetic concerns than by political and moral ones:.

Under these black remains asleep, truth, who roused the works: man is only man among men.

Commanding the stage in the library's hallowed auditorium, she roused the audience for a.

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Word Origin & History

rouse

c.1460, probably from Anglo-Fr., or O.Fr., originally used of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, but like many hawking terms of obscure origin. Meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1586; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590.

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"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort."

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