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Rousing

/ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/

To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

📖 Definitions of "Rousing"

verb
  1. 1

    To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

  2. 2

    To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).

    "to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions"

  3. 3

    To provoke (someone) to action or anger.

  4. 4

    To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.

    "to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase"

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which somebody or something is roused.

adjective
  1. 1

    That rouses or excites.

    "rousing music"

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