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
If someone rouses you when you are sleeping or if you rouse, you wake up. 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
(A) A contraction of carousal, a drinking bout (Swedish, rus; Norwegian, ruus, drunkenness; Dutch, roes, a bumper ) Rouse (1 syl ) The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 4
(A) A contraction of carousal a drinking bout (Swedish, rus; Norwegian, ruus, drunkenness; Dutch, roes, a bumper ) Rouse (1 syl ) The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 4
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. + rousing rous·ing a rousing speech to the convention in support of the president. = stirring
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[ 'rauz ] (verb.) 1531. Middle English, to shake the feathers.