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ROUSE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

rouser (someone who rouses others from sleep)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

Example:

The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks

Synonyms:

agitate; charge; charge up; commove; excite; rouse; turn on

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

hype up; psych up (get excited or stimulated)

bother (make nervous or agitated)

pother (make upset or troubled)

electrify (excite suddenly and intensely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will rouse him

The good news will rouse her

Derivation:

rousing (the act of arousing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Example:

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

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rouse"):

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become active

Example:

He finally bestirred himself

Synonyms:

bestir; rouse

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "rouse" is one way to...):

be active; move (be in a state of action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

Is the purse so light that there is not enough for a rouse?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once, he roused himself and glanced at his watch.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He roused himself as from sleep, and straightened up with an effort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Would not such a request rather rouse his suspicions and cause him to fly?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it was, I rang the bell and roused the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I hadn't the heart to rouse you."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

From a reverie of this kind, as she sat at her drawing-table, she was roused one morning, soon after Edward's leaving them, by the arrival of company.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

What shall we do to rouse them?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him to do what he would never have dreamed of doing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)