Rousted vs Roosted - What's the difference?
rousted | roosted |
(roust)
to rout out of bed; to rouse
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
*:"Why didn't you roust me out?" / "Well, I tried to, but I couldn't; I couldn't budge you." / "Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast. I'll be along in a minute."
To harass, to treat in a rough way.
*1962 , , 00:28:45
*:My client is an ex-convict. He's been constantly harassed by the police... subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation. He's even been denied an adequate place to live! To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted .
(slang) to arrest
(roost)
The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
* Dryden
A group of birds roosting together.
As verbs the difference between rousted and roosted
is that rousted is past tense of roust while roosted is past tense of roost.rousted
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(head)Anagrams
* *roust
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(en verb)Synonyms
* roost, rostAnagrams
* * * *roosted
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(head)roost
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He clapped his wings upon his roost .