Sekirov Dictionary

rouse

/ɹaʊz/

verb24

  1. [with oneself] Sometimes followed by up: to wake (oneself or someone) from deep thought, or rest or sleep; to awaken.
  2. Sometimes followed by up: to wake from deep thought, or rest or sleep; to awaken.
  3. To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to stir up.
  4. To stir (a liquid, especially (brewing) beer in the brewing process).
  5. To provoke (someone) to react (for example, in anger or annoyance); to spur; also, to annoy, to tease.
  6. Originally chiefly followed by up: to cause (an emotional reaction, a feeling, etc.); to excite, to incite, to stir up.
  7. Sometimes followed by up: to disturb (someone) from a state of apathy, comfort, etc.
  8. [with oneself] Sometimes followed by up: to cause (oneself) to be active or alert; to incite, to stir; also, to cause (oneself) to carry out a task, take action, etc.
  9. Sometimes followed by up: to carry out a task, take action, etc.
  10. To cause (game) to emerge from cover.
  11. [with oneself] To lift up or raise (someone; or something, especially the head).
  12. To sprinkle salt on (fish, especially herring) in the process of curing; to salt.
  13. (dialect, Scotland) To move quickly; to rush.
  14. [with oneself] Of a hawk: to shake (its own) feathers.
  15. Of a hawk, or (generally) some other bird: to shake its feathers.
  16. (literary, no longer used) To disturb (someone's sleep).
  17. (no longer used) Sometimes followed by up: of a characteristic or emotion: to be stirred up or to become stronger.
  18. (no longer used) Sometimes followed by up: of game: to emerge from cover.
  19. (no longer used) Chiefly of a bird: to cause (its crest, feathers, etc.) to become stiff or to stand up.
  20. (no longer used) Of hair: to stand on end; to bristle.
  21. (no longer used) To pull (a cable, rope, etc.) in a specified direction, especially to tighten it; to haul.
  22. [with oneself] (no longer used) Of a person: to stretch (one's own) body.
  23. (no longer used) To cause (something) to rest or settle.
  24. (no longer used) To rest or settle.

noun5

  1. An act of causing something to be (more) active or to move; a shakeup, a stir; also (chiefly US), a commotion, a disturbance.
  2. (UK, Canada) Often in the form Rouse and preceded by the: the sounding of a call, usually on the bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed; also, the reveille.
  3. Chiefly of a hawk: an act of shaking the feathers.
  4. (no longer used) A full or large cup or glass of an alcoholic beverage, especially when drunk as a toast; a bumper.
  5. (no longer used) A social gathering at which alcoholic beverages are drunk; a drinking bout or party; a carousal.

adjective1

  1. (no longer used) Used as an epithet for a person: having red hair; red-haired, redheaded.
rouse
/ɹaʊs/

verb1

  1. (Australia, informal) Followed by at, on, etc.: to criticize severely; to tell off.
forms

roused · rousedst · rousing · rouses · rouseth · rousest · more rouse · most rouse

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