Usually means: Awaken or provoke into action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rouse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rouse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rouse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rouse, rouse: Wordnik
  7. rouse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rouse, rouse: Wiktionary
  9. rouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rouse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rouse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rouse, rouse: Dictionary.com
  13. rouse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rouse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rouse (surname), Rouse, The Rouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rouse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rouse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rouse: Rhymezone
  19. rouse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rouse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rouse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rouse: Free Dictionary
  23. rouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rouse: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. rouse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rouse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROUSE: Acronym Finder
  2. rouse: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rouse, rouse, rouse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rouse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rouse: A Few Falconry Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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