rouse

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
2. To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
3. To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
4. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
5. To pull by main strength; to haul.
6. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
7. (slang) To tell off; to criticise.

Synonyms

arouse

stir up

awaken

excite

incite

stimulate

wake

stir

provoke

wake up

waken

agitate

inspire

awake

kindle

bestir

urge

animate

encourage

enliven

irritate

invigorate

instigate

tickle

shake up

cause

abet

quicken

activate

aggravate

charge

charge up

commove

disturb

drive out

egg on

exasperate

force out

give rise to

impel

influence

raise

reveille

revive

shake

spur

toast

turn on

work up

exite

rout out

rouse up

cause to wake

galvanize

get angry

get up

ginger up

help a person stand

goad

goose

🪿

hasten

hearten

hurry

impassion

worry

incense

cheer up

induce

yield

cheer

inspirit

carouse

carousal

call out

jog

call

knock up

lift up

make

make up

move

nettle

pressure

pressurize

brisk up

push on

wake someone up

pin-prick

rattle

relive

get excited

revelry

make happy

revolt

rile

rise

scare

😨

set on edge

be animate

bring up

cause to shy

start

bother

booze

bear

🐻

swell

tease

thrill

batter

tintillate

titillate

summon up

tousle

tremble

trouble

urge on

upset

arousing

annoy

drinking-bout

anger

💢

educe

egg

🥚

accelerate

embolden

drink

🥤

enkindle

come alive

enrage

evoke

whip

cherish

fire

🔥

fire up

foment

winnow

frighten

galvanise

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹaʊz/

Etymology

From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recusare, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse.
Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.