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Definition: ROUSED |
ROUSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Rouse |
Date "ROUSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: ROUSED |
| English words defined with "ROUSED": agitate, Antiperistasis, arouse, awaken ♦ charge, charge up, commove ♦ excite ♦ huffy ♦ lubricious, lustful ♦ on tiptoe ♦ prurient ♦ rouse ♦ salacious, semicoma, Sopor, sore ♦ turn on ♦ wake, wake up, waken. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ROUSED": Lusitanian Prince ♦ Myrra ♦ Sardanapalus. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--but see Britania[sic] and roused her lion to give this monster, a proper reception. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. |
Scott | It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sound of the latch roused him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ROUSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 52.31% of the time. "ROUSED" is used about 216 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 52.31% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 45.83% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.85% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 216 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ROUSED": be roused. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ROUSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | ameutai, ameutées, ameutée, ameutèrent, ameuta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | wachgerufen, rief wach, geweckt (awoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | svegliare (arouse, awake, be roused, call, reawaken, rouse, stir, to wake up, wake, waken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 発憤 (inspired, stimulated), 発奮 (inspired, stimulated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はっぷ" (inspired, stimulated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | moostit, dooshtit, broddit (jabbed, pierced, poked, probed, stung). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ousedray будить (arouse, awake, awaken, awakens, awakes, call, raise, rouse, wake, wake up, woke, woken). (various references) uppjagad (excited, overexcited, overstrained), uppbragd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calefacta, calefacti, calefactum, calefactus, conciti, concito. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ROUSED": aroused, caroused, groused, rearoused, uproused. (additional references) | |
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"ROUSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brouzed, orasid, Pousada, proused, rised, roaset, rosed, rouce, roued, Rouissi, rouned, rousal, rousled, Rousou, rousse, Roussety, rouved, rouze, rused, Ryosuke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: douser, soured, uredos. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: doers, doser, douse, druse, dures, duros, euros, redos, resod, rosed, roues, rouse, sudor, uredo. | |
-2 letters: doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dour, dues, duos, dure, duro, eros, euro, odes, ores, ouds, ours, redo, reds, rode, rods, roes, rose, roue, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sord, sore, sour, sued, suer, surd, sure, udos, urds, used. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: aroused, coursed, detours, devours, dourest, dousers, drogues, enduros, gourdes, groused, ordures, redouts, resound, rosebud, rousted, scoured, sounder, sourced, undoers. | |
+2 letters: beshroud, bordures, boulders, bounders, caroused, chorused, closured, crunodes, decorous, decorums, delouser, delusory, desirous, dextrous, dimerous, dormouse, doublers, doubters, douceurs, dourines, dourness, eductors, enshroud, founders, guerdons, hounders, moulders, obscured, obtrudes, outdares, outdoers, outdress, outreads, outrides, outsider, overdubs, oversuds, overused, postured, pounders, produces, proudest, purposed, readouts, rebounds, redoubts, redounds, refounds, rehoused, resounds, rondures, rosebuds, roulades, roundels, rounders, roundest, savoured, scourged, scrouged, shoulder, shrouded, smoulder, sounders, sourdine, sprouted, suborder, suborned, succored, tonsured, unhorsed, unsolder, unsorted, unsoured, uproused, upsoared, urodeles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 55 53 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- ..- ... . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O U S E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0055 0053 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)524955533938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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