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Rousing   /rˈaʊzɪŋ/   Listen
Rousing

adjective
1.
Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement.  Synonym: stirring.  "Stirring events such as wars and rescues"
2.
Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading.
noun
1.
The act of arousing.  Synonym: arousal.


Rouse

verb
(past & past part. roused; pres. part. rousing)
1.
Become active.  Synonym: bestir.
2.
Force or drive out.  Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out.
3.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.  Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on.
4.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."



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"Rousing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be encountered in rousing England was sheer short-sightedness. A considerable time elapsed before it was possible to make the people understand that this was a people's war, that it was a matter of vital personal concern to the people as a whole, and to all individuals as individuals. ...
— Towards The Goal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... slowly and with anything but an elated look. It was evident that Mr. Leslie had refrained from rousing his expectations. He stared ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... deep-slumbering Master heard him. Rousing himself, and still three-quarters asleep, he heard not only the scratching and the whimper but, in the distance, Lady's wail of fear. And, ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... staff apparently had designed a campaign in Upper Alsace and the Vosges, but the throwing of a brigade from Belfort across the frontier on the extreme right of their line on August 6 would seem to have been undertaken chiefly with a view of rousing patriotic enthusiasm. French aeroplane scouts had brought in the intelligence that only small bodies of German troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine. Therefore the opportunity was presented to invade the upper part of the lost province of ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... and the old trees far apart; so when we got upon the grass I knew who would be mistress. I gave her a rousing good gallop, shook my reins and patted her, to show her how confident I was, and brought her back to my uncle as quiet as a lamb. Unfortunately, however, the mare had taken a dislike to certain stone pillars which supported the stable gates, and ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville


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