Rouse vs. Roust — What's the Difference?

To wake (someone) up.

Rost is a Bengali dish, possibly originating in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh (Eastern Bengal, now Bangladesh). The dish is influenced by the Mughlai cuisine of the Mughal Empire.

To cause (someone) to be active, attentive, or excited; stir up.

To cause to get out of bed.

To give rise to; bring about

To cause to leave; drive away

To awaken.

To confront or treat aggressively

To become active, attentive, or excited.

(transitive) to rout out of bed; to rouse

An arousal.

To harass, to treat in a rough way.

The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

To arrest

An official ceremony over drinks.

(transitive) to drive strongly en

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.

To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

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.

To tell off; to criticise.

To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.

To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.

To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.

To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.

To raise; to make erect.

To get or start up; to rise.

To awake from sleep or repose.

To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

A bumper in honor of a toast or health.

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

Become active;

Force or drive out;

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;

Cause to become awake or conscious;