Rouse

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹaÊŠz/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠz

Alternative forms

• rouze obsolete

Origin

From Middle English rowsen, rouzen, rusen ("to rush out"), from Old Norse *rūsa ("to storm out, rush"), from Proto-Germanic *rūsaną ("to bluster, be fierce, storm"), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewǝ- ("to move, drive, agitate"). Cognate with Swedish rusa ("to rush, hurry, dash, scurry"), Danish ruse ("to rush"), Middle Dutch rūsen ("to race, rage"), Middle Low German rūsen ("to rush, bluster, make a clamour"). More at rush.

Full definition of rouse

Noun

1. an arousal
2. an official ceremony over drinksAnd the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
3. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
• TennysonFill the cup, and fill the can,
  Have a rouse before the morn.
4. (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

Verb

1. to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
• Atterburyto rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
• ShakespeareNight's black agents to their preys do rouse.
• Alexander PopeMorpheus rouses from his bed.
2. (provoke) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
• MiltonBlustering winds, which all night long
  Had roused the sea.
3. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
• SpenserLike wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
• Alexander PopeRouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
4. (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
5. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.

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