1. To arouse from slumber, apathy, or depression. 2. To excite, as to anger or action; stir up. See synonyms at provoke.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To awaken. 2. To become active.
NOUN:
The act or an instance of arousing.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English rousen, to shake the feathers: used of a hawk, perhaps from Old French reuser, ruser, to repel, push back, from Vulgar Latin *recsre, from Latin, to refuse. See recuse.
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re, from Latin, to refuse. See recuse.
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