Rouse
verb
To wake someone or make them active.
The noise outside roused her from her sleep
verb
To cause to feel a strong emotion or to take action.
His speech roused the crowd to take action
noun
A large or festive gathering, often involving drinking.
They held a rouse to celebrate their victory
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
To stand up or cause to stand up after laying down.
He roused his body off the couch to answer the door
verb
To wake someone or make them active.
The noise outside roused her from her sleep
verb
To cause to feel a strong emotion or to take action.
His speech roused the crowd to take action
noun
A large or festive gathering, often involving drinking.
They held a rouse to celebrate their victory
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
To stand up or cause to stand up after laying down.
He roused his body off the couch to answer the door
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Awakening Someone
Use 'rouse' when describing gently waking a person rather than startling them.
The smell of coffee roused her from her morning drowsiness.
Pro Tip 2/2Starting Activity
'Rouse' implies stimulating someone to move or act, often used after inactivity.
A motivational talk can rouse team spirit before a game.
Pro Tip 1/2Awakening Someone
Use 'rouse' when describing gently waking a person rather than startling them.
The smell of coffee roused her from her morning drowsiness.
Pro Tip 2/2Starting Activity
'Rouse' implies stimulating someone to move or act, often used after inactivity.
A motivational talk can rouse team spirit before a game.
Pro Tip 1/2Awakening Someone
Use 'rouse' when describing gently waking a person rather than startling them.
The smell of coffee roused her from her morning drowsiness.
Pro Tip 2/2Starting Activity
'Rouse' implies stimulating someone to move or act, often used after inactivity.
A motivational talk can rouse team spirit before a game.
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#OurEarth Innovation in...
that's just like your normal travel that you have a hump skips in the modified rousing so we can take it under water I'm coming along as part of the technology were doing at the moment it's underwater hangouts so to take people are you guys now so a different world so technology is a very big part of what
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Chinaka Hodge: What will...
what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?
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The unexpected math...
enabled him to depict turbulence, it's also far too difficult to accurately express the rousing beauty of the fact that in a period of intense suffering, Van Gogh was somehow able to perceive and represent one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind,
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Lucy in the Sky with...
two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after
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What will change Africa?...
questions rousing she's a foot yes from from a mic back here and then one one of the person please you see the mic back over here right coming in love us that was a provocative talk very very interesting to you that's that that
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The great conspiracy...
who had helped overthrow the tyrannical king known as Tarquin the Proud. Instead of seizing power himself, the elder Brutus led the people in a rousing oath to never again allow a king to rule. Rome became a republic
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
definitely in a state of deep repose right now and I'm not sure that anything's going to rouse him and then his son if I can get my fat bonds out of the way not far looking on in where I
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Sharks 101 PIPE National...
from the ocean's murky depths to it's sun-kissed shallows, rousing fear and awe like no other creature in the sea. The world's biggest living fish is a shark.
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Croc vs. Monitor Lizard...
course protecting their own heads as well finally the mother croc has roused by this ruckus and scares off the lizard with her growl
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Baby Elephant's Struggle...
lying next to him his aunt tries to rouse him without her help his chances of getting up again are slim
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#OurEarth Innovation in...
that's just like your normal travel that you have a hump skips in the modified rousing so we can take it under water I'm coming along as part of the technology were doing at the moment it's underwater hangouts so to take people are you guys now so a different world so technology is a very big part of what
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Chinaka Hodge: What will...
what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?
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The unexpected math...
enabled him to depict turbulence, it's also far too difficult to accurately express the rousing beauty of the fact that in a period of intense suffering, Van Gogh was somehow able to perceive and represent one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind,
Video examples
Lucy in the Sky with...
two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after
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What will change Africa?...
questions rousing she's a foot yes from from a mic back here and then one one of the person please you see the mic back over here right coming in love us that was a provocative talk very very interesting to you that's that that
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The great conspiracy...
who had helped overthrow the tyrannical king known as Tarquin the Proud. Instead of seizing power himself, the elder Brutus led the people in a rousing oath to never again allow a king to rule. Rome became a republic
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
definitely in a state of deep repose right now and I'm not sure that anything's going to rouse him and then his son if I can get my fat bonds out of the way not far looking on in where I
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Sharks 101 PIPE National...
from the ocean's murky depths to it's sun-kissed shallows, rousing fear and awe like no other creature in the sea. The world's biggest living fish is a shark.
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Croc vs. Monitor Lizard...
course protecting their own heads as well finally the mother croc has roused by this ruckus and scares off the lizard with her growl
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Baby Elephant's Struggle...
lying next to him his aunt tries to rouse him without her help his chances of getting up again are slim
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Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish Saint
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
English Musician
La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
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Robert Kennedy
American Politician
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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William Ellery Channing
American Writer
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Xun Kuang
Chinese Philosopher
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Roger Ebert
American Critic
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish Saint
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
English Musician
La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
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Robert Kennedy
American Politician
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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William Ellery Channing
American Writer
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Xun Kuang
Chinese Philosopher
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Roger Ebert
American Critic
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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