Dictionary Entry
rouse
rouse is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, noun, verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive/intransitive verb
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
- 2noun
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
- 3noun
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- 4verb
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
- 5verb
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
- 6verb
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
- 7verb
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
- 8verb
To raise; to make erect.
- 9intransitive verb
To get or start up; to rise.
- 10intransitive verb
To awake from sleep or repose.
- 11intransitive verb
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
- 12verb
cause to become awake or conscious
"He was roused by the drunken men in the street"
"Please wake me at 6 AM."
- 13verb
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- 14verb
force or drive out
"The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
- 15verb
become active
"He finally bestirred himself"
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