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rouse
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  • The scuffing of her feet was enough to rouse him.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • After three or four hours, I can't help it, I have to rouse Peeta because I can't keep my eyes open.  (source)
  • We can rouse them with a simple mating call.  (source)
    rouse = excite
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  • Officer Delinko gradually roused himself.  (source)
    roused = awakened
  • Kya wanted to holler out but knew not to rouse Pa, so opened the door and stood on the brick—'n'—board steps.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • For just like the rousing of Humphrey Bogart's indignation, the clock's ticking revealed the Count to be a Man of Intent.†  (source)
  • But something rouses him.†  (source)
  • As soon as we roused them, they shambled off apologetically.  (source)
    roused = awakened
  • First my father would try to rouse me.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.†  (source)
  • I crossed into New York State at Rouses Point and stayed as near to Lake Ontario as I could because it was my intention to look at Niagara Falls, which I had never seen, and then to slip into Canada, from Hamilton to Windsor, keeping Lake Erie on the south, and to emerge at Detroit—a kind of end run, a small triumph over geography.†  (source)
  • It seemed I had just closed my eyes when morning came and the kapos roused us up out of our beds.  (source)
    roused = woke
  • In a moment, I'd blink and rouse from this beautiful dream, get out of bed, march down to the kitchen to eat breakfast with no one to talk to but Hassan.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
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