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1. Become active
   - bestir
    
2. Force or drive out
   - rout out, drive out, force out
    
3. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
   - agitate, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
    
4. Cause to become awake or conscious
   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"
   - awaken, wake, waken, wake up, arouse

Sounds like: rows

Derived forms: rousing, rouses, roused

See also: rouser, rousing

Type of: alter, be active, change, displace, disturb, modify, move, trouble, upset

Encyclopedia: Rouse