Roused vs Rosed - What's the difference?
roused | rosed |
(rouse)
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 .
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
* Atterbury
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
* Milton
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
an official ceremony over drinks
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
* Tennyson
wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
(rose)
A shrub of the genus Rosa , with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
A flower of the rose plant.
A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
Something resembling a rose flower.
(heraldiccharge) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
The base of a light socket.
(mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
(mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
(poetic) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To perfume, as with roses.
Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
(rise)
As verbs the difference between roused and rosed
is that roused is (rouse) while rosed is (rose).roused
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Verb
(head)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)Verb
(rous)- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
- to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
- Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
- Morpheus rouses from his bed.
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
- Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
- (Spenser)
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".Noun
(en noun)- 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
- Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbsrosed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rose
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-'', compare Sanskrit ''vardh- , with relatives in Avestan).Noun
(s)Verb
(ros)- A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
- (Tennyson)
