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View definitions for roused

roused

adjective as in awake

adverb as in astir

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Another man, Kori McCoy, told the commission about his brother, Willie McCoy, who was shot to death in 2019 after officers roused him from sleep in his car.

Liang, who called 911 after the blaze started growing, roused his parents and evacuated when the flames threatened his unit.

As Peter Baker just reminded us in the New York Times, “History is littered with presidential candidates who roused their partisans at conventions only to fall short come November.”

From Salon

The would-be assassin’s gunfire that wounded former President Trump and sent panic through a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday was unleashed at a time of increasing hostilities in American politics that have roused extremes on the left and the right and further inflamed divisions ahead of the November election.

It was a Friday morning and George McCune had roused himself to make the 2.4-mile trip from his Northridge home to the Veterans Affairs campus in North Hills.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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