rouse
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rouse (plural rouses)
- an arousal
- an official ceremony over drinks
- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
- (military, British and Canadian) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
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to rouse (third-person singular simple present rouses, present participle rousing, simple past and past participle roused)
- to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy
- to provoke (someone) to anger or action
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
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to wake
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