rouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: rouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rouze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rouze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An arousal.
pos: noun
gloss: The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
gloss: To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.
Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.
gloss: To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
As for the heat, with which he treated his other adversaries, ’twas sometimes strain’d a little too far, but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome.
At Musick, Melancholy lifts her Head;
Dull Morpheus rowzes from his Bed;
gloss: To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
[…] their first Step in Dangers, after the common Efforts are over, was always to despair, lie down under it, and die, without rousing their Thoughts up to proper Remedies for Escape.
‘You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don’t rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.’
[…] he had grown to look upon houses as things that concerned other people, like churches, butchers’ stalls, cricket matches and football matches. They had ceased to rouse ambition or misery. He had lost the vision of the house.
gloss: To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
pos: verb
examples: He scarce had finisht, when such murmur filld
Th’ Assembly, as when hollow Rocks retain
The sound of blustring winds, which all night long
Had rous’d the Sea […]
“A surgeon!” said Anne.
He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was darting away, when Anne eagerly suggested—
“Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? […]”
He tried to argue with her. But it was like trying to argue with a tree: she did not even rouse herself to deny, she just listened quietly and then talked again in that level, cold tone as if he had never spoken.
The words they stopped me from uttering may have been very paltry indeed, hardly words to rouse the rabble.
gloss: To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
pos: verb
examples: to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
Deformed creatures, in straunge difference,
Some hauing heads like Harts, some like to Snakes,
Some like wilde Bores late rouzd out of the brakes,
Hark, the game is roused!
The Youth rush eager to the Sylvan War;
Swarm o’er the Lawns, the Forest Walks surround,
Rowze the fleet Hart, and chear the opening Hound.
gloss: To pull by main strength; to haul.
pos: verb
examples: Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it.
gloss: To raise; to make erect.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And ouer, all with brasen scales was armd,
Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare,
That nought mote perce, ne might his corse bee harmd
With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare,
Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare,
His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight,
So shaked he, that horror was to heare,
For as the clashing of an Armor bright,
Such noyse his rouzed scales did send vnto the knight.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
gloss: To tell off; to criticise.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: He roused on her for being late yet again.
Related words: rabble-rouse
Derived words: arouse
rousable
rousement
rouser
rousing
rousingly
roust
uprouse
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: събуждам
roman: sǎbuždam
lang: Czech
word: probudit
lang: Czech
word: probrat
lang: Dutch
word: opwekken
lang: French
word: éveiller
lang: German
word: erwecken
lang: German
word: aufwachen
lang: German
word: erwachen
lang: German
word: aufwecken
lang: Ido
word: vekar
lang: Irish
word: múscail
lang: Māori
word: whakaoho
lang: Occitan
word: esvelhar
lang: Occitan
word: espertar
lang: Occitan
word: despertar
lang: Portuguese
word: acordar
lang: Russian
word: пробужда́ться
roman: probuždátʹsja
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tog
lang: Spanish
word: despertar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ایقاظ ایتمك
roman: ikâz etmek
lang: Bulgarian
word: възбуждам
roman: vǎzbuždam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 激起
roman: jīqǐ
lang: Czech
word: vyburcovat
lang: Latin
word: incitō
lang: Sanskrit
word: छर्दति
roman: chardati
lang: Spanish
word: incitar
lang: Spanish
word: suscitar