ROUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rousing mean? 

• ROUSING (noun)
  The noun ROUSING has 1 sense:

1. the act of arousing

  Familiarity information: ROUSING used as a noun is very rare.

• ROUSING (adjective)
  The adjective ROUSING has 2 senses:

1. capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

2. rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading

  Familiarity information: ROUSING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of arousing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

arousal; rousing

Context example:

the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions

Hypernyms ("rousing" is a kind of...):

change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rousing"):

awakening; wakening; waking up (the act of waking)

excitation; excitement (something that agitates and arouses)

incitation; incitement (an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating)

inflaming; inflammation (arousal to violent emotion)

inspiration; stirring (arousing to a particular emotion or action)

stimulation (the act of arousing an organism to action)

titillation (an agreeable arousal)

Derivation:

rouse (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused)

• ROUSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

Synonyms:

rousing; stirring

Context example:

stirring events such as wars and rescues

Similar:

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading

Context example:

tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation

Similar:

provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)

 Context examples 

“Thank you for rousing me,” he replied.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Rousing himself with an effort, he possessed himself of a box which had once contained type-writer paper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Willoughby first rousing himself, broke it thus: Well, let me make haste and be gone.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“How's the pie?” he said, rousing himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He tried to resume his former easy, indifferent air, but it was an affectation now, for the rousing had been more effacious than he would confess.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On which, leaning forward, he caught his comrade a rousing smack across his rosy cheek.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was pensive a few minutes, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully—"But you two are my visitors to-night; I must treat you as such."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, this must be very bad for you, said he, suddenly rousing from a little reverie, to be coming and finding us here.

(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)

Lor, Peggotty! observed my mother, rousing herself from a reverie, what nonsense you talk!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)