Synonyms of the word

rouse

• n. An arousal.
• n. (military, Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers…
• v. To wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
• v. To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
• v. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
• v. (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
• v. (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
• n. An official ceremony over drinks.
• n. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
• n. Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

arouse

• v. To stimulate feelings.
• v. To sexually stimulate.
• v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

awaken

• v. (transitive) To cause to become awake.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
• v. (intransitive) To stop sleeping.
• v. Rare passive participle of awake.

bestir

• v. (transitive) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
• v. (intransitive) To become active; to rouse oneself.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

commove

• v. To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

disturb

• v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
• v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
• v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
• n. (obsolete) disturbance.

excite

• v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
• v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
• v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
• v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

upset

• adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
• n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• n. An upset stomach.
• n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
• v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

wake

• v. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
• v. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive…
• v. To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
• v. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
• v. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
• v. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch.
• v. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
• n. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
• n. A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
• n. (historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication…
• n. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
• n. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
• n. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
• n. A number of vultures assembled together.

waken

• v. (transitive) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
• v. (intransitive) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.