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Showing words for ROUSED using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Roused

douser, roused, soured, uredos

5 Letter Words for Roused

doers, dorse, doser, douse, druse, dures, duros, euros, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, roues, rouse, rudes, sored, sudor, sured, uredo

4 Letter Words for Roused

dero, deus, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dour, drou, duer, dues, duos, duro, eros, euro, oder, odes, ords, ordu, ored, ores, ouds, ours, redo, reds, rode, rods, roed, roes, rose, roud, roue, rous, rude, ruds, rued, rues, ruse, seor, sero, sord, sore, soud, sour, sude, sued, suer, surd, sure, udos, urde, urds, ures, used, user

3 Letter Words for Roused

der, des, doe, dor, dos, dso, dsr, due, duo, dur, edo, eds, eos, erd, ers, esd, esr, esu, ode, ods, oer, oes, ord, ore, ors, ose, oud, our, ous, red, res, rod, roe, ros, rud, rue, sed, ser, sod, sou, sud, sue, sur, udo, uds, urd, ure, urs, use

Definitions for Roused

[1] to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
[2] to stir or incite to strong indignation or anger.
[3] to cause (game) to start from a covert or lair.
[4] Nautical . to pull by main strength; haul.
[5] to come out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, apathy, depression, etc.
[6] to start up from a covert or lair, as game.
[7] a rousing.
[8] a signal for rousing; reveille.
[9] to bring (oneself or another person) out of sleep, unconsciousness, etc, or (of a person) to come to consciousness in this way
[10] (tr) to provoke, stir, or excite to rouse someone's anger
[11] rouse oneself to become active or energetic
[12] hunting to start or cause to start from cover to rouse game birds
[13] (intr) falconry (of hawks) to ruffle the feathers and cause them to stand briefly on end (a sign of contentment)
[14] (raʊs ) (intr foll by on ) Australian to speak scoldingly or rebukingly (to)
[15] mainly US another term for reveille
[16] an alcoholic drink, esp a full measure
[17] another word for carousal

Words related to Roused

rousearouse, awake, awaken, stir, disturb, provoke, trigger, incite, rile, agitate, inflame, startle, heighten, galvanize, kindle, rise, call, raise, urge, move

Words nearby Roused

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Origin of Roused

11480–90 in sense “(of a hawk) to shake the feathers”; 1525–35 for def 3 ; origin uncertain

Other words from Roused

rous·ed·ness [rou -zid-nis] /ˈraʊ zɪd nɪs/ , noun
rous·er , noun
un·roused , adjective

Word origin for Roused

C17: probably a variant of carouse (as in the phrase drink a rouse , erroneous for drink carouse ); compare Danish drikke en rus to become drunk, German Rausch drunkenness

Synonyms for Roused

arouse, awake, awaken, get up, stir, wake up, call, raise, rise