What (who) is Rouse - definition
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Rouse (disambiguation)
rouse
v. (D; tr.) to rouse from, out of (to rouse smb. out of bed)
rouse
[ra?z]
¦ verb
1. bring out of sleep; awaken.
cease to sleep; wake up.
2. bring out of inactivity.
3. excite; provoke: his evasiveness roused my curiosity.
4. stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing).
Derivatives
rousable adjective
rouser noun
Origin
ME (orig. as a hawking and hunting term): prob. from Anglo-Norman Fr., of unknown origin.
rouse
(rouses, rousing, roused)
1.
If someone rouses you when you are sleeping or if you rouse, you wake up. (LITERARY)
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
VERB: V n, V
2.
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...
VERB: V pron-refl to-inf, V pron-refl from n
3.
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.
VERB: V n, be V-ed to n
• rousing
...a rousing speech to the convention in support of the president.
= stirring
ADJ: usu ADJ n
4.
If something rouses a feeling in you, it causes you to have that feeling.
It roused a feeling of rebellion in him...
VERB: V n
Pronunciation examples for Rouse
1. Elliott Rouse
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2. to rouse a sleeper.
The Tides of Mind _ David Gelernter _ Talks at Google
3. Rous discovered this in 1911.
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4. But he edited Rouse Ball's "Mathematical Recreations,"
LOVE_HATE Relationship with LIFE _ John Horton Conway _ Talks at Google
5. in and around the early 1900s with Peyton Rous
Brian Druker _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Rouse
1. Nader is too professorial to really rouse his audience.
2. Attorney Carlos Moran, who is representing Rouse, declined to comment.
3. The ecology is definitely being changed," Prof Rouse said.
4. Chelsea were dominant, until Rooney endeavoured to rouse United.
5. Doctors later tried without success to rouse him.