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Definition of Rouse

Rouse To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. A bumper in honor of a toast or health. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. To raise; to make erect. To get or start up; to rise. To awake from sleep or repose. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention. Related Definitions: Action, Agitate, All, And, Animal, As, Assistance, Awake, Be, Bumper, Carousal, Cause, Chase, Covert, Deer, Drinking, Early, Erect, Excite, Faculties, Festival, Frolic, From, Get, Haul, Health, Honor, Idleness, In, Inattention, Indifference, Indolence, Languor, Lively, Lurking, Make, Mechanical, Motion, Of, One, Or, Other, Place, Pull, Put, Raise, Repose, Rise, Rope, Rouse, Sleep, Start, State, Stir, Strongly, Stupidity, The, Thought, To, Toast, Together, Up, Upon, Wake, Without

Rouse Quotations It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. Gertrude Stein 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 aid them to judge for themselves. William Ellery Channing What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. Kurt Huber Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. Xun Zi

Rouse Translations rouse in Danish is stimulere rouse in Dutch is irriteren, aanstoken, ophitsen rouse in German is wachrufen, wecken rouse in Latin is agito

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