ROUSE
\ɹˈa͡ʊz], \ɹˈaʊz], \ɹ_ˈaʊ_z]\
Definitions of ROUSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
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become active; "He finally bestirred himself"
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force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
By Princeton University
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
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become active; "He finally bestirred himself"
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force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
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A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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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.
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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.
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To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
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To raise; to make erect.
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To get or start up; to rise.
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To awake from sleep or repose.
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To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
By Oddity Software
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A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
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A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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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.
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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.
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To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
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To raise; to make erect.
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To get or start up; to rise.
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To awake from sleep or repose.
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To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
By Noah Webster.
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To awaken; stir to thought or action; drive (game) from a covert or hiding place.
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To start from sleep; show signs of activity; be stirred to action.
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A drinking bout.
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Rouser.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To raise up: to stir up: to awaken: to excite to: to put into action: to startle or start, as an animal.
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To awake: to be excited to action.
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A carousal.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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