rouseverb [ T ]
uk/raʊz/us/raʊz/to wake someone up or make someone more active or excited:
He roused himself (from a pleasant daydream) and got back to work.
The speaker attempted to rouse the crowd with a cry for action.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woken
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