rouse
/ɹaʊz/ verb C2- To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to stir up.
- To stir (a liquid, especially (brewing) beer in the brewing process).
- To provoke (someone) to react (for example, in anger or annoyance); to spur; also, to annoy, to tease.
- Originally chiefly followed by up: to cause (an emotional reaction, a feeling, etc.); to excite, to incite, to stir up. · to rouse the emotions or passions
- Sometimes followed by up: to disturb (someone) from a state of apathy, comfort, etc.
- Sometimes followed by up: to wake (oneself or someone) from deep thought, or rest or sleep; to awaken.
- To lift up or raise (someone; or something, especially the head).
- Sometimes followed by up: to cause (oneself) to be active or alert; to incite, to stir; also, to cause (oneself) to carry out a task, take action, etc.
Plural rouse · He/she/it rouses · Past roused · Past participle roused · -ing form rousing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rouse
- He/she/it
- rouses
- Past
- roused
- Past participle
- roused
- -ing form
- rousing
From the library
The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early.
“Do you think it possible to rouse that as well as Provence?”
“Isn’t the sea wonderful?” said Anne, rousing from a long, wide-eyed silence.
All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
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