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as in waked
to cause to stop sleeping
the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep
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as in awaked
to cease to be asleep
I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late
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Recent Examples of roused
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Patients can be briefly roused—for example, to ask them to roll over or change a dressing—before falling unconscious again.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
These setbacks roused long-standing SpaceX critics and attracted new ones, including the Mexican government, which has threatened legal action against the company over reported debris on and around its shores.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
Their experiences have roused growing awareness about how AI chatbots can influence people’s perceptions and otherwise impact their mental health, especially as such bots have become notorious for their people-pleasing tendencies.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Well, for one, the go-to induction method is being roused from your bed in the middle of the night, hog-tied, and tossed in a van.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Patients can be briefly roused—for example, to ask them to roll over or change a dressing—before falling unconscious again.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
These setbacks roused long-standing SpaceX critics and attracted new ones, including the Mexican government, which has threatened legal action against the company over reported debris on and around its shores.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
Their experiences have roused growing awareness about how AI chatbots can influence people’s perceptions and otherwise impact their mental health, especially as such bots have become notorious for their people-pleasing tendencies.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roused
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At a time when contentious words dominate our conversations—think insurrection and fascism and fake news and woke—the need for dictionaries to chronicle and explain language, and serve as its watchdog, has never been greater.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Walton-Penner ownership group woke everybody up.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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The box office success of King Kong’s 1952 rerelease, followed by Eugene Lourie’s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), where a dinosaur was awakened by an atomic blast, both served as inspiration.—
Michael Taube,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The car’s impact awakened other family members in the home, but they were not hurt, prosecutors said.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Billy awoke to the sound of another alarm going off in the plant.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Earlier that week, the men awoke in their cells at four in the morning, the usual time.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Tips to Break the Bedtime Screen Habit Dr. Verma, who was not involved in the research, offers the following tips to prevent wakeful effects from smartphones and get better sleep: Avoid screens 30 to 60 minutes before bedtime.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Goode: Who among us doesn't want to have a nap gently guided by our wakeful rhythm?—
Lauren Goode,
WIRED,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Roused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roused. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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