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v. To arouse from slumber, apathy, or depression.

v. To excite, as to anger or action; stir up. See Synonyms at provoke.

verb-intransitive. To awaken.

verb-intransitive. To become active.

n. The act or an instance of arousing.

n. an arousal

n. an official ceremony over drinks

n. The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

v. to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy

v. to provoke (someone) to anger or action

v. To pull by main strength; to haul

v. To be excited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

v. 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.

v. To wake from sleep or repose.

v. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference.

v. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.

v. To raise; to make erect.

verb-intransitive. To get or start up; to rise.

verb-intransitive. To awake from sleep or repose.

verb-intransitive. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

To cause to start up by noise or clamor, especially from sleep; startle into movement or activity; in hunting, to drive or frighten from a lurking-place or covert.

To raise or waken from torpor or inaction by any means; provoke to activity; wake or stir up: said of animate beings.

To evoke a commotion in or about: said of inanimate things.

Hence To move or stir up vigorously by direct force; use energetic means for raising, stirring, or moving along. In this sense still sometimes written rowse.

To raise up; erect; rear; fix in an elevated position.

To put and turn over or work about in salt, as fish in the operation of rousing; roil.

Nautical, to haul heavily.

Synonyms and To animate, kindle, stimulate, provoke, stir up.

To start or rise up, as from sleep, repose, or inaction; throw off torpor or quietude; make a stir or movement.

To rise; become erect; stand up.

Nautical, to haul with great force, as upon a cable or the like.

n. An arousing; a sudden start or movement, as from torpor or inaction; also, a signal for arousing or starting up; the reveille.

As if suddenly aroused; rousingly; vehemently.

n. Wine or other liquor considered as an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

n. Hence Noise; intemperate mirth.

Same as roose.

To blow air through (the wort of beer) in order to aid in the development of the yeast.

v. become active

v. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

v. cause to become awake or conscious

v. force or drive out

"In fact, this rouse is so clever that your credit card statement will even show “donation to Planned Parenthood”."

roused    rouses    rousing   

move    be active   

awake    start    wake    excite    startle    stimulate    rouse-about block    to rouse out   

carousal    festival    agitate    raise    rise   

Aus    Gauss    House    Klaus    Laos    Strauss    Taos    allows    arouse    blouse   

thunderous    tumultuous    jubilant    raucous    rapturous    inspire    rollicking    martial    impassioned    joyous