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How to pronounce “rouse”
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Pronunciation guide for rouse
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of rouse with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why school should start later for teens
I have a friend who yells "Fire!" just to rouse her sleeping teen.
- Definition summary
- An arousal.
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How to pronounce rouse
Why school should start later for teens

I have a friend who yells "Fire!" just to rouse her sleeping teen.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “rouse”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
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