When someone calls out "rise and shine," they are trying to rouse you, to make you wake up.
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Verb
cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
Verb
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
Verb
force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
Verb
become active; "He finally bestirred himself"
v. i. & t.
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a
rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
n.
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
n.
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
v.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to
rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
v.
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or
suddenly.
v.
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of
idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the
faculties, passions, or emotions.
v.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
v.
To raise; to make erect.
v. i.
To get or start up; to rise.
v. i.
To awake from sleep or repose.
v. i.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of
indolence or inattention.
Rouse
Rouse
Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn.
Rouse
Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.2.
To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom.4.
Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea.5.
Rouse
Night's black agents to their preys do rouse.2.
Morpheus rouses from his bed.3.
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place;
To get or start up; to rise.
Usage Examples
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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Other Usage ExamplesGreat minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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