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Meaning Of Rouse

  1. v. i. & t.
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  2. n.
    A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
  3. n.
    A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  4. v.
    To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
  5. v.
    To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
  6. 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.
  7. v.
    To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
  8. v.
    To raise; to make erect.
  9. v. i.
    To get or start up; to rise.
  10. v. i.
    To awake from sleep or repose.
  11. v. i.
    To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.



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