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Showing words for ROUSING using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Rousing

nigrous, rousing, souring

6 Letter Words for Rousing

girons, grison, groins, guiros, rosing, ruings, signor, soring, suring, unrigs

5 Letter Words for Rousing

girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, guiro, gurns, inorg, irons, irous, noirs, noris, nosig, ornis, rings, roins, rosin, ruing, ruins, rungs, soign, suing, unrig, urson, using

4 Letter Words for Rousing

gins, gios, girn, giro, gnus, gois, gons, grin, gris, gros, grun, grus, guns, gurn, gurs, ingo, inro, ions, iron, niog, nogs, noir, nori, nous, nurs, onus, orig, ourn, ours, rigs, ring, rins, roin, rong, roun, rous, rugs, ruin, rung, runs, sign, sing, sion, snig, snog, snug, snur, soir, song, sori, sorn, sour, sugi, sung, suni, surg, unio, unis, urns

3 Letter Words for Rousing

gin, gio, gis, gns, gnu, goi, gon, gor, gos, gou, gro, grs, gui, gun, gur, gus, ign, ing, ins, ion, ios, iou, irs, isn, iso, nig, nis, nog, nor, nos, nur, nus, ois, oni, ons, org, ors, osi, oui, our, ous, rig, rin, rio, rog, roi, ron, ros, rug, run, sig, sin, sir, sog, son, sou, sri, sui, sun, sur, ugs, ung, uni, uns, urn, urs

Definitions for Rousing

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

Words related to Rousing

zippy, enthusiastic, spirited, bouncy, lively, chirpy, busy, refreshing, brisk, alert, dashing, active, animated, stimulating, bustling, buzzing, astir, bright, buoyant, energetic

Words nearby Rousing

rous sarcoma virus, rous-associated virus, rouse, rouseabout, rouser, rousing, rousseau, rousseau, jean-jacques, rousseauism, roussel, roussillon

Origin of Rousing

e11480–90 in sense “(of a hawk) to shake the feathers”; 1525–35 for def 3 ; origin uncertain

Other words from Rousing

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

Word origin for Rousing

eC17: 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 Rousing

bouncy, chirpy, enthusiastic, lively, spirited, zippy, active, alert, animated, brisk, bustling, busy, buzzing, dashing, jumping, refreshing, stimulating, astir, bright, buoyant, energetic, frisky, full of pep, hyper, industrious, peppy, perky, snappy, spry, vigorous