Word Meanings - ROUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROUSE)

• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• instigate
• quicken
• exhilarate
• embolden
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stir
• prompt
• incite
• stimulate
• Disturb
• Derange
• discompose
• disorder
• discommode
• plague
• confuse
• agitate
• annoy
• trouble
• interrupt
• incommode
• worry
• vex
• molest
• disquiet
• Wake
• vivify
• invigorate
• inspirit
• excite
• animate
• Inflame
• Fire
• kindle
• fan
• incense
• madden
• infuriate
• exasperate
• Irritate
• Imbitter
• auger
• enrage
• Pierce
• Perforate
• bore
• drill
• penetrate
• affect
• touch
• move
• enter
• stab
• transfix

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROUSE)

• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to ROUSE)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• INCOMMODE
  An inconvenience. Strype.
• QUICKEN
  1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.