Definitions for the word "rouse" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i. & t.
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v.
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v.
To raise; to make erect.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To get or start up; to rise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To awake from sleep or repose.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
(-sing) 1 (cause to) wake. 2 (often foll. By up, often refl.) Stir up, make or become active or excited (was roused to protest). 3 anger (terrible when roused). 4 evoke (feelings). [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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