All 21 Uses
rouse
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- All at once laughter broke into a roar and covered everything: the mare, roused by the shower of blows, began feebly kicking.†
Chpt 1.5
- Nastasya, coming into his room at ten o'clock the next morning, had difficulty in rousing him.†
Chpt 1.6
- Nastasya felt positively offended and began wrathfully rousing him.†
Chpt 1.6
- He started, roused himself, raised his head, looked out of the window, and seeing how late it was, suddenly jumped up wide awake as though someone had pulled him off the sofa.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Pieces of torn linen couldn't rouse suspicion, whatever happened; I think not, I think not, any way!" he repeated, standing in the middle of the room, and with painful concentration he fell to gazing about him again, at the floor and everywhere, trying to make sure he had not forgotten anything.†
Chpt 2.1
- Razumihin shouted, roused to fury at last.†
Chpt 2.2
- On the Nikolaevsky Bridge he was roused to full consciousness again by an unpleasant incident.†
Chpt 2.2
- When he was attending the university, he had hundreds of times—generally on his way home—stood still on this spot, gazed at this truly magnificent spectacle and almost always marvelled at a vague and mysterious emotion it roused in him.†
Chpt 2.2
- Of course he roused suspicion.†
Chpt 2.6
- Oh, really?" he roused himself suddenly, as if waking up.†
Chpt 3.3
- Even Pyotr Petrovitch was roused.†
Chpt 4.2
- It was evident that that idea had very often occurred to her before and he had only roused it again.†
Chpt 4.4 *
- Porfiry Petrovitch stood for some moments as though meditating, but suddenly roused himself and waved back the uninvited spectators.†
Chpt 4.6
- I was simply developing her, entirely disinterestedly, trying to rouse her to protest....All I wanted was her protest and Sofya Semyonovna could not have remained here anyway!†
Chpt 5.1
- "A pack of nonsense!" yelled Luzhin, roused to fury, "it's all nonsense you've been talking!†
Chpt 5.3
- "No, Sonia, that's not it," he began again suddenly, raising his head, as though a new and sudden train of thought had struck and as it were roused him—"that's not it!†
Chpt 5.4
- "Oh, nonsense," said Svidrigailov, seeming to rouse himself.†
Chpt 6.4
- I've put it off till another time, but you're enough to rouse the dead....Well, let us go, only I warn you beforehand I am only going home for a moment, to get some money; then I shall lock up the flat, take a cab and go to spend the evening at the Islands.†
Chpt 6.5
- "No, I must give up all that now," he thought, rousing himself.†
Chpt 6.6
- Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic.†
Chpt 6.6
- "You can't do it here, it's not the place," cried Achilles, rousing himself, his eyes growing bigger and bigger.†
Chpt 6.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(rouse) to awaken, make more active, or excite
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)