rouse

1. (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.Examples: "John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle."; "Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep."Synonyms: bring round, roust, wake up, arouse, awake, awaken, bring round, crytransitive

2. (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.Examples: "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse."; "As for the heat, with which he treated his other adversaries, ’twas sometimes strain’d a little too far, but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome."; "At Musick, Melancholy lifts her Head; Dull Morpheus rowzes from his Bed;"Synonyms: arise, get up, wake up, abraid, arise, arouse, awake, awakenintransitive

3. (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.Examples: "Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it."

4. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.Examples: "And ouer, all with brasen scales was armd, Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare, That nought mote perce, ne might his corse bee harmd With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare, Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare, His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight, So shaked he, that horror was to heare, For as the clashing of an Armor bright, Such noyse his rouzed scales did send vnto the knight."; "He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian."obsolete

5. (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.Examples: "He roused on her for being late yet again."slang