Usually means: Awakened or stirred from inactivity.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word roused:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. roused: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roused: Merriam-Webster
  3. roused: Collins English Dictionary
  4. roused: Vocabulary.com
  5. Roused, roused: Wordnik
  6. roused: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. roused: Wiktionary
  8. Roused, roused: Dictionary.com
  9. roused: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Roused: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Roused: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. roused: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. roused: FreeDictionary.org
  14. roused: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roused: Legal dictionary

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  1. roused: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rouse)

noun:  An arousal.
noun:  (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb:  (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
verb:  (intransitive) To 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:  (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
verb:  (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
verb:  (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
noun:  An official ceremony over drinks.
noun:  A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
noun:  Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.
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