name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
rouse
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹaʊz/
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homophone: rows (noisy arguments)
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rhymes with -aʊz
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CMU ARPABET: R AW1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R AW1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.
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noun
Meaning 4
An arousal.
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noun
Meaning 5
The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, UK
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 6
An official ceremony over drinks.
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noun
Meaning 7
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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noun
Meaning 8
Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
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verb
Meaning 9
To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: bring round, roust, wake up, arouse, awake, awaken, cry, knock up, rouse, uprouse, wake, waken
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verb
Meaning 10
To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arise, get up, wake up, abraid, arouse, awake, awaken, rise, rouse, stir, wake, waken
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verb
Meaning 11
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: galvanise, stoke, animate, awaken, electrify, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exhilarate, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, galvanize, gin up, ignite, inflame, intoxicate, kindle, quicken, rouse, send, set fire to, set on fire, sharpen, stir the blood, suscitate, thrill, vitalise, wake, warm the blood, whet, wind up, work up, yerk
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verb
Meaning 12
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
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Synonyms: inflame, set off, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer, draw, drive, encourage, egg on, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invoke, lash, motive, motivate, move, obligate, oblige, push, promote, prompt, provoke, rouse, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get to, honk off, incense, infuriate, madden, make angry, nark, offend, outrage, put out, rankle, rile, piss off, roil, steam, tick off, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set up someone's birse
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verb
Meaning 13
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
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verb
Meaning 14
To pull by main strength; to haul.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 15
To raise; to make erect.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 16
To tell off; to criticise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: when followed by "on"
Examples
- He roused on her for being late yet again.
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verb
Meaning 17
cause to become awake or conscious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He was roused by the drunken men in the street
- Please wake me at 6 AM.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: awaken, wake, waken, wake up, arouse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: reawaken, bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around, call
verb
Meaning 18
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: agitate, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disturb, upset, trouble
Narrower terms: hype up, psych up, bother, pother, electrify
verb
Meaning 19
force or drive out
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rout out, drive out, force out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: hunt, smoke out
verb
Meaning 20
become active
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He finally bestirred himself
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bestir
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be active, move
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from Middle English and Anglo-Norman rous (“red-haired”), from Latin russus. * As a German surname, Americanized from Raus. * As a northern French and Walloon surname Rousé, variant of Rosé, Rose.
From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recūsō, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse. Figurative meaning “to stir up, provoke to activity” is from 1580s; that of “awaken” is first recorded 1590s.
First attested in the late 16th Century. From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: събуждам (sǎbuždam) — to wake
- Czech: probudit — to wake
- Czech: probrat — to wake
- Dutch: opwekken — to wake
- French: éveiller — to wake
- German: erwecken — to wake
- German: aufwachen — to wake
- German: erwachen — to wake
- German: aufwecken — to wake
- Ido: vekar — to wake
- Irish: múscail — to wake
- Māori: whakaoho — to wake
- Occitan: esvelhar — to wake
- Occitan: espertar — to wake
- Occitan: despertar — to wake
- Portuguese: acordar — to wake
- Russian: пробужда́ться (probuždátʹsja) — to wake
- Scottish Gaelic: tog — to wake
- Spanish: despertar — to wake
- Ottoman Turkish: ایقاظ ایتمك (ikâz etmek) — to wake
- Bulgarian: възбуждам (vǎzbuždam) — to cause, excite
- Chinese Mandarin: 激起 (jīqǐ) — to cause, excite
- Czech: vyburcovat — to cause, excite
- Irish: múscail — to cause, excite
- Latin: incitō — to cause, excite
- Sanskrit: छर्दति (chardati) — to cause, excite
- Spanish: despertar — to cause, excite
- Spanish: incitar — to cause, excite
- Spanish: suscitar — to cause, excite
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