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Inspire vs Rouse - What's the difference?

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Inspire is a related term of rouse.


As a verb inspire

is .

As a proper noun rouse is

.

inspire

English

Verb

(inspir)
  • To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
  • * Bible, Wisdom xv. 11
    • He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dawning day new comfort hath inspired .
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  • To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
    • Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
  • * Dryden
    • Erato, thy poet's mind inspire , / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
  • To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
  • * Harvey
    • forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty
  • To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • (archaic) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, / The breathing instruments inspire .
  • To spread rumour indirectly.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (inhale) expire

    Derived terms

    * inspirer

    Related terms

    * inspiration * inspirational * inspirator * inspiratory

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rouse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

    Alternative forms

    * rouze (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an arousal
  • (military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .

    • Verb

    (rous)
  • to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
    • to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
  • * Atterbury
    • to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
  • * Shakespeare
    • Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Morpheus rouses from his bed.
  • (senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
  • * Milton
    • Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
  • To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
    • to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
  • * Spenser
    • Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
  • (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
  • (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
    • (Spenser)
    (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an official ceremony over drinks
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
    Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
  • A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  • * Tennyson
    • Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
  • wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs