roused
振作起来,醒来后,唤醒,惊醒
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roused, rous·ing.
- : to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
- : to stir or incite to strong indignation or anger.
- : to cause to start from a covert or lair.
- : Nautical. to pull by main strength; haul.
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roused, rous·ing.
- : to come out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, apathy, depression, etc.
- : to start up from a covert or lair, as game.
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Examples
Most of the witnesses had heard or seen something, sort-of; several were elderly, many roused from sleep.
He was understandably and rightly roused to added outrage because a school is supposed to be a sanctuary.
Half of them, in fact, are still asleep at the appointed time, and to a man they resist being roused.
The kneeling nuns, roused from their devout abstraction, made their reverence and went away.
He tried to calm me, but I was roused at last, and drawing my long knife barred his way.
At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
Ripperda roused himself from his portentous trance, and arrayed his noble figure in the rugged habiliments of the muleteer.
Lost as he was to most external things, Hugh roused himself to some surprise at the name of the hotel.
And here he might have stopped with safety; but his roused, suspicious, sensitive nature, would not suffer him.
This, added to Woolf's sarcastic manner of speech, roused Trevithick's anger.