Definition of "roused" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of rouse. (verb)

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• "Martin roused himself and sat up and began to eat, between spoonfuls reassuring Maria that he had not been talking in his sleep and that he did not have any fever."
• "Lenin roused the proletariat, and Mao marched the Long March toward peace, prosperity, and improvement … and one thing that they all had in common was the desire to take from one group to give to another in the name of a more perfect society."
• "She learned of her good fortune when a late-night phone call roused her from her hotel bed in New Delhi, India, where she'd gone to study qawwali, a local musical delicacy spiced with hypnotic, serpentine vocal lines."