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as in to wake
to cause to stop sleeping
the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep
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as in to awake
to cease to be asleep
I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late
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Recent Examples of rouse
Reese received a rousing ovation during the pregame introductions, an honor usually reserved only for returning Stanford alumni and Caitlin Clark among visiting players.
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
Despite not playing, Clark came out to rousing applause pregame and spent time signing autographs for fans.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
In addition to her editing responsibilities, Wintour also supported significant initiatives to drum up retail sales, spearheading Fashion’s Night Out, which got off to a rousing start in 2009 but then ran out of steam by 2013.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
But they didn’t get cheated this spring, not with three rousing blasts from the past: Against the Pistons, against the Celtics, against the Pacers.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
Despite not playing, Clark came out to rousing applause pregame and spent time signing autographs for fans.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
In addition to her editing responsibilities, Wintour also supported significant initiatives to drum up retail sales, spearheading Fashion’s Night Out, which got off to a rousing start in 2009 but then ran out of steam by 2013.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
But they didn’t get cheated this spring, not with three rousing blasts from the past: Against the Pistons, against the Celtics, against the Pacers.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rouse
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Dickinson led off the semifinal game and roped a double off his metal bat that Smith said woke him up from a long, tiring day.—
Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 July 2025
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In September 2023, the world awoke to the news that someone had deliberately felled the Sycamore Gap tree with a chainsaw.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
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The fire department was dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to an apartment building on Barbary Lane after a 32-year-old woman awoke to heavy black smoke, according to a news release.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
12 July 2025
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The defense, with its framing, wanted to awaken any latent unease that a juror—an older one, perhaps—might feel toward the preceding years of correction between the sexes.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
3 July 2025
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What Santana has awakened from the Earth, alongside the continued popular appeal of his art, has stirred other echoes familiar to his incredible career.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Rumors of this special berry’s presence on Boysen’s farm, after it had been sold, aroused the curiosity of Walter Knott.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
3 July 2025
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At this moment, your suspicion should be aroused, like hearing three minor keynotes playing in a mystery film.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Rouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouse. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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