ROUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rouse mean? 

• ROUSE (verb)
  The verb ROUSE has 4 senses:

1. become active

2. force or drive out

3. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

4. cause to become awake or conscious

  Familiarity information: ROUSE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rouse    ... he / she / it rouses   
Past simple: roused   
Past participle: roused   
-ing form: rousing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become active

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bestir; rouse

Context example:

He finally bestirred himself

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

be active; move (be in a state of action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Context example:

The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

agitate; charge; charge up; commove; excite; rouse; turn on

Context example:

The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

hype up; psych up (get excited or stimulated)

bother (make nervous or agitated)

pother (make upset or troubled)

electrify (excite suddenly and intensely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will rouse him
The good news will rouse her

Derivation:

rousing (the act of arousing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

rouser (someone who rouses others from sleep)

 Context examples 

Forgive me the words, St. John; but it is your own fault that I have been roused to speak so unguardedly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I wish you'd do me the favor to rouse yourself a little," she said sharply.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and his five daughters at once.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The house was roused up directly, and three of them went out along the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The passing admiration of Mr Elliot had at least roused him, and the scenes on the Cobb and at Captain Harville's had fixed her superiority.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then, however, it all came on again, or something very like it, and nothing less than Lady Bertram's rousing thoroughly up could really close such a conversation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As they entered Argyle Buildings, however, she was roused by this address from her companion, “Who is that girl who looked at you so hard as she went by?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Once when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I roused myself, and looked about me in the room where I was left alone: this was furnished like the first, only after a more elegant manner.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The news reached Felix and roused him from his dream of pleasure.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)