rouse

Definition of rouse in English English dictionary: an arousal; to provoke (someone) to anger or action; to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy; The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse; To pull by main strength; to haul; an official ceremony over drinks
Re-speaking earthly thunder. - Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128.; {v} to stir up, excite, wake; {n} too much liquor, a wile, a trick, deceit; To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions; If something rouses a feeling in you, it causes you to have that feeling. It roused a feeling of rebellion in him; {f} wake up, awaken, stir into action; inflame, enthuse; annoy, irritate; become active; "He finally bestirred himself"; To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase; cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"; If you rouse yourself, you stop being inactive and start doing something. She seemed to be unable to rouse herself to do anything He roused himself from his lazy contemplation of the scene beneath him; To raise; to make erect; cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM "; To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances; To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly; If someone rouses you when you are sleeping or if you rouse, you wake up. Hilton roused him at eight-thirty by rapping on the door When I put my hand on his, he stirs but doesn't quite rouse. = wake; A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic; force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A M "; To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate; To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention; To awake from sleep or repose; To get or start up; to rise; To make a yeast starter using sterile wort and N to G of the normal pitching slurry; (A) A contraction of carousal, a drinking bout (Swedish, rus; Norwegian, ruus, drunkenness; Dutch, roes, a bumper ) Rouse (1 syl ) “The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse ” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 4; (A) A contraction of carousal a drinking bout (Swedish, rus; Norwegian, ruus, drunkenness; Dutch, roes, a bumper ) Rouse (1 syl ) “The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse ” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 4; when a hawk fluffs and shakes its feathers; A bumper in honor of a toast or health; If something or someone rouses you, they make you very emotional or excited. He did more to rouse the crowd there than anybody else Ben says his father was good-natured, a man not quickly roused to anger or harsh opinions. + rousing rous·ing a rousing speech to the convention in support of the president. = stirring
roused: Simple past tense and past participle of rouse
rouser: Something very exciting or great
rouser: One who rouses another from sleep
rousing: That rouses or excites
rousing music.
rousing: Present participle of rouse
rouser: {n} one who rouses, one who stirs up
Rous: American pathologist. He shared a 1966 Nobel Prize for his discovery of tumor-producing viruses
Rous: {i} family name; Francis Peyton Rous (1879-1970), United States pathologist who won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for discovering viruses that cause tumors
To rouse: daw
rous: United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970)
roused: past of rouse
roused: angry
rouser: One who, or that which, rouses
rouser: A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort
rouser: {i} one who wakes up, one who awakens; one who inflames, one who excites; one who irritates, one who annoys
rouser: someone who rouses others from sleep
rouses: third-person singular of rouse
rousing: the act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions"
rousing: A rousing good fire Rousing means large, great; hence a rousing falsehood (mendacium magnificum)
rousing: Having power to awaken or excite; exciting
rousing: capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues
rousing: {s} stirring, stimulating, exciting; powerful, vigorous, energetic
rousing: Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie
rousing: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation" capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues
rousing: That rouses or rouse
rousing: capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"
rousing: a rousing song, speech etc makes people feel excited and eager to do something
rousing: Creating turbulence by agitation, stirring or mixing
rousing: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"