Definitions for rouse
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bestir, rouseverb

   become active

   "He finally bestirred himself"

2. rout out, drive out, force out, rouseverb

   force or drive out

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

3. agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge upverb

   cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

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

4. awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouseverb

   cause to become awake or conscious

   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rousenoun

   an arousal

2. rousenoun

   an official ceremony over drinks

3. rousenoun

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

4. rouseverb

   to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy

5. rouseverb

   to provoke (someone) to anger or action

6. rouseverb

   To pull by main strength; to haul

7. rouseverb

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

8. Etymology: From rowsen, rouzen, rusen, from *, from rūsanan, from (o)rewǝ-. Cognate with rusa, ruse, rusen, rusen. More at rush.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rouse

   to pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances

2. Rousenoun

   a bumper in honor of a toast or health

3. Rousenoun

   a carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic

4. Rouse

   to cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase

5. Rouse

   to wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly

6. Rouse

   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. Rouse

   to put in motion; to stir up; to agitate

8. Rouse

   to raise; to make erect

9. Rouseverb

   to get or start up; to rise

10. Rouseverb

    to awake from sleep or repose

11. Rouseverb

    to be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention

12. Etymology: [Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hresan to fall, rush. Cf. Rush, v.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rouse

   rowz, v.t. to raise up: to stir up: to awaken: to excite to anything: to put into action: to startle or start, as an animal: to work about in salt, to roil.—v.i. to awake: to be excited to action.—n. the reveille.—adv. (obs.) vehemently.—adj. Rous′ant (her.), starting up, as a bird in the attitude of rising.—ns. Rouse′ment, an awakening religious discourse; Rous′er, one who, or that which, rouses, anything astonishing.—adj. Rous′ing, having power to awaken: great, violent.—adv. Rous′ingly.—adj. Rous′y, noisy, riotous. [Scand., Sw. rusa, Dan. ruse, to rush.]

2. Rouse

   rowz, n. a carousal: a bumper. [Scand., Sw. rus, drunkenness, Ice. rúss; cf. Dut. roes, Ger. rausch.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ROUSE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rouse is ranked #1330 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Rouse surname appeared 26,519 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Rouse.
   
   68.8% or 18,253 total occurrences were White.
   25.2% or 6,704 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 634 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2% or 536 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1% or 273 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 117 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of rouse in a Sentence

1. Shalanda Young:

   This is not something we should have to call out, this is something that should be pervasive in how the government does its business. So Cecilia Rouse may not see a line item, and I think that's more than appropriate with the way The President has asked The President government to address these long-pervasive issues.

2. Author Unknown:

   A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

3. Bharavi:

   As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

4. William Ellery Channing:

   Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

5. William Ellery Channing:

   Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

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