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ROUSE

rouse, bestir, roused, rouses, rousing, amoove, unbed - v 
to bring out of a state of sleep or inactivity 

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Synonyms

arouse, awake, awaken, get up, stir, wake up, call, raise, rise

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Examples

He was quiet long enough to rouse her interest, and she glanced up to determine the cause of his silence.

For many years he made the aspects of life at sea his particular theme, and he contrived to rouse the patriotic enthusiasm of the Danish public as it had never been roused before.

Nerves made her movements clumsy while her mind sought some forgotten information about a threat great enough to rouse the Undersecretary and his staff in the middle of the night.

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Etymology

mid-15c., rousen, intransitive, probably from Anglo-French or Old French reuser, ruser; Middle English Compendium compares 16c. French rousee "abrupt movement." Sometimes also said to be from Latin recusare "refuse, decline," with loss of the medial -c-. Originally in English a technical term in hawking, "to shaking the feathers of the body," but like many medieval hawking and hunting terms it is of obscure origin.

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