1
as in to wake
to cause to stop sleeping
the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep
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as in to awake
to cease to be asleep
I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late
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Recent Examples of rouse
Passing work that fails is an even worse thing to do for the middling and poor students and teachers who might otherwise be roused to do better.
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The Editors, National Review, 29 May 2025
All of these outcomes are more than enough to be a rousing success, making for an all-time box office in theaters for Memorial Day weekend.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
One example occurred in early 2024, when a deepfake video circulated on platforms like TikTok and WhatsApp, showing Traoré delivering a rousing speech in multiple languages, calling for African unity and independence.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
According to a White House pool report, the man seemed to faint into the grass but was quickly roused and helped off to the side.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 May 2025
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The Editors, National Review, 29 May 2025
All of these outcomes are more than enough to be a rousing success, making for an all-time box office in theaters for Memorial Day weekend.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
One example occurred in early 2024, when a deepfake video circulated on platforms like TikTok and WhatsApp, showing Traoré delivering a rousing speech in multiple languages, calling for African unity and independence.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
According to a White House pool report, the man seemed to faint into the grass but was quickly roused and helped off to the side.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rouse
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Other moms responded with similar accounts of staying up to check baby monitors, zooming in to see if their infants were breathing, or waking in panic from vivid dreams.—
Darlin Tillery,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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Really just to wake him up to the notion that he’s been sleepwalking for the last 10 or 20 years.—
Rosemary Rossi,
Variety,
31 May 2025
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When Mendler awoke some mornings, her mom would still be tapping away at her architectural designs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2025
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A week later, Carlos was awoken at 5 a.m. and told to pack up.—
Allison McCann,
New York Times,
11 June 2025
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Leah’s inheritance becomes the inciting incident in a series of events that unravel her life: Her trip awakens a latent violence in her husband and an invigorating independent streak in her.—
Xochitl Gonzalez,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
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The experience was shared on Reddit, where the passenger detailed how the person seated behind him, in first class nonetheless, repeatedly tapped and slapped the person's head and hat to awaken him to help retrieve a lost earbud.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
12 June 2025
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From classic role plays surrounding one's age or pets to the strangely specific, like men being aroused by women playing with toy cars or eating pizza.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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The offensive Orientalist depictions of Chinese characters that were common in Hollywood films of that era inevitably aroused strong passions in Chinese audiences.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
3 June 2025
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“Rouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouse. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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