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Rousing   /rˈaʊzɪŋ/   Listen
Rousing

adjective
1.
Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement.  Synonym: stirring.  "Stirring events such as wars and rescues"
2.
Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading.
noun
1.
The act of arousing.  Synonym: arousal.


Rouse

verb
(past & past part. roused; pres. part. rousing)
1.
Become active.  Synonym: bestir.
2.
Force or drive out.  Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out.
3.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.  Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on.  Antonym: calm.
4.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."  Antonym: cause to sleep.



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"Rousing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to fluid contents upon the labels of their own goods. It was no uncommon thing in the Sunny Southland to observe a staunch churchgoer who was an outspoken advocate of temperance rising up and giving three rousing hiccups for good old Dr. Bunkum's Nerve Balm. And distinctly I recall the occasion when a stalwart mother in Israel, starting off to attend a wedding and feeling the need of a little special toning-up beforehand, took three wineglassfuls of her favorite Blood Purifier ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... jolly old place," Raven said, rousing himself out of his musing. "As for breaking out, that's what ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... producers and purveyors who do his sweating for him, depriving him of the opportunity of earning both appetite and good digestion by honest toil. So he resorts to condiments and ragouts, palate-tickling and tongue-tickling sauces and nerve-rousing stimulants, as a means of securing the unearned felicity of ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting - Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 • Various
... be found," cried the King, rousing himself. "It must be found, do you hear? I will not have you touch the life of my friend the Admiral. I will not have it—by ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... well as critic, he once saved the life of a dissipated old sergeant of dragoons, to whom he had taken a fancy, by rushing into a house which the man had just quitted in a state of intoxication, and so rousing the inmates by his gestures, that they at once followed him into the road, alongside of which the beery old sabreur was found prostrate in a pool of water, setting his face pertinaciously against that hostile ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various


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