rouse
/rowz/ • verb 1 bring or come out of sleep; awaken or wake up. 2 bring out of inactivity. 3 excite; provoke: his evasiveness roused my curiosity. — ORIGIN originally as a hawking and hunting term: probably from Old French.
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