单词 | rouse |
释义 | rouse I. intransitive verb 1. obsolete a. b. < my fell of hair would … rouse, and stir as life were in't — Shakespeare > 2. a. < laughed and dozed, then roused and read again — Vachel Lindsay > < before she could rouse from this insult — Grace Kinnicut > — often used with up < from under … ragged blankets figures roused up from the dirt floor — F.V.W.Mason > b. < our indignation rouses — Adam Smith > 3. slang Australia transitive verb 1. archaic < roused a hart — Charles Kingsley > 2. obsolete a. b. < being mounted, and both roused in their seats — Shakespeare > 3. a. < names in the railway time-table … first rouse romantic images in the mind of the boy — Edmund Wilson > < these questions … sometimes roused charges and countercharges — Alan Valentine > b. < such wars rouse limited passions — Herbert Agar > < the nobility that is in us is roused to respond — H.A.Overstreet > c. < use … histrionics to rouse her audience — Andrea Parke > < the government was roused to unparalleled activity — B.E.Supple > < the boat rouses wild ducks to flight — American Guide Series: Michigan > < made an effort … to rouse herself from sorrow — Margaret A. Barnes > — often used with up < roused up his brothers, who were in bed — William Black > d. (1) < roused out his anchor watch — K.M.Dodson > (2) Synonyms: see stir II. < a rouse of voices — Carl Sandburg > III. 1. obsolete 2. archaic IV. V. variant of roose |
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