Word Meaning

rouses definition and meaning

v. i. & t. To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
n. A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
n. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
v. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
v. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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.
v. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
v. To raise; to make erect.
v. i. To get or start up; to rise.
v. i. To awake from sleep or repose.
v. i. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

Crossword clues for rouses

- Awaken
- Excite
- Provoke
- Scold
- Steamed up
- Stimulate
- Stir from sleep
- Wake
- Wake up
- Wake up in carousel
- Wake up in wondrous excitement
- Wake up Rose around the second of July
- Wake up with Rose hanging round you
- Waken up
- zip up
- Awakens
- Stimulates
- Stirs from sleep
- Wakes up