rouse

  • (noun): An arousal.
  • (noun): The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
  • (verb): To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
  • (verb): To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
  • (verb): To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
  • (verb): To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
  • (verb): To pull by main strength; to haul.
  • (verb): To raise; to make erect.
  • (verb): (when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
  • to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
  • to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
  • He roused on her for being late yet again.