How to pronounce rouse

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What rouse means

verb

To wake someone or stir them out of rest

In a sentence: The smell of pancakes roused me from a deep sleep.

Where it comes from: It comes from a Middle English word for a hawk shaking out its feathers. Where that word came from is unknown.

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