Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To rout out of bed; to rouse.

    1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Yesterday morn at 6:30 they rousted me up & gave me 2 shots in the behind.

    wach rütteln, aus dem Bett schmeißen

  2. (informal, transitive)To harass, to treat in a rough way.

    grob behandeln, malträtieren

  3. (slang, transitive)To arrest.

    einbuchten, verknacken, einlochen

  4. (transitive)To drive strongly.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. One by one they rousted themselves and left.

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Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 3
to rouse:
to treat in a rough way:
to arrest:

Origin

1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.

1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.

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Forms

rousts, rousting, rousted, rousted
Base formroust · to roust
3rd person singularrousts
Present participlerousting
Past simplerousted
Past participlerousted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyroust
he, she, itrousts

Past simpleLesson

all personsrousted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rousted
he, she, ithas rousted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill roust

Synonyms

5 synonyms
arrest:collarB1nickpinch
rout out of bed:bring round
knock up

Word family

2 related words
Derivedroustaboutrouster

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
roundwormrouserouteB2router
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