To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
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