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

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

    "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"

    "Please wake me at 6 AM."

    Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, waken

13. verb. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

    "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

    Synonyms: agitate, charge, commove, excite

14. verb. force or drive out

    "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."

15. verb. become active

    "He finally bestirred himself"

    Synonyms: bestir

Synonyms

arouse, awaken, wake, waken, agitate, charge, commove, excite, bestir

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rouse:

euros, roues

Common word forms

roused, rouser, rouses, rousing, rousement

Words from these letters

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