rousing

Meanings

Plural: rousings

Noun

• the act of arousing
• The act by which somebody or something is roused.

Verb

• become active
• force or drive out
• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
• cause to become awake or conscious
• present participle and gerund of rouse

Adjective Satellite

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement
  • "a rousing sermon"
• rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
  • "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"

Adj

• That rouses or excites.

Synonyms

agitate, arousal, arouse, awaken, bestir, charge, charge up, commove, drive out, excite, force out, rouse, rout out, stirring, turn on, wake, wake up, waken

Antonyms

calm, cause to sleep

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