0 past simple and past participle of rouse
1 to wake someone up or make someone more active or excited:
Learning experiences largely determine whether observers will be roused or unmoved by the emotional expressions of others.
A din song roused, good nuns raised, sad rousing done.
Having one's mind roused by necessity also implies (unspecified) sensory perception.
Katerina is roused by the sound of knocking at her bedroom door.
Broken promises of development roused specific grievances and provided a ready vocabulary for those angry with the regime.
The phoenix is roused and then tamed.
For two years we were lulled, and even in the last troubled six months we have not been roused.
Nothing roused the anger of the old folks in this country more than that action.
Rouse and arouse are both used in formal contexts. Arouse means ‘make someone have a particular feeling’:
