Rouse vs. Wake — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rouse and Wake
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Definitions
Rouse
To wake (someone) up.
Wake
In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or the wave pattern on the water surface downstream of an object in a flow, or produced by a moving object (e.g. a ship), caused by density differences of the fluids above and below the free surface and gravity (or surface tension).
Rouse
To cause (someone) to be active, attentive, or excited; stir up.
Wake
To cease to sleep; become awake
Overslept and woke late.
Rouse
To give rise to; bring about
An ad that roused my curiosity.
A book that roused a furor.
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Wake
To stay awake
Bears wake for spring, summer, and fall and hibernate for the winter.
Rouse
To awaken.
Wake
To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness
Suddenly woke to the danger we were in.
Rouse
To become active, attentive, or excited.
Wake
To hold or attend the wake of someone who has died.
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Rouse
An arousal.
Wake
To cause to come out of sleep; awaken.
Rouse
The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
Wake
To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse
Wake old animosities.
Rouse
An official ceremony over drinks.
Wake
To make aware; alert or enlighten
The report woke me to the facts of the matter.
Rouse
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Wake
A gathering of people in the presence of the body of a deceased person in order to honor the person and console one another.
Rouse
Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
Wake
A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint.
Rouse
To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
Wake
An annual vacation.
Rouse
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
To rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
Wake
The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water
The wake of a ship.
Rouse
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
Wake
A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed
The war left destruction and famine in its wake.
Rouse
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
To rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
Wake
(intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
Rouse
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
Wake
(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
Rouse
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
Wake
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Rouse
To tell off; to criticise.
He roused on her for being late yet again.
Wake
To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Rouse
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Wake
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Rouse
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, 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.
Wake
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
Rouse
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
Wake
(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
Rouse
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom.
Wake
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Rouse
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Blustering winds, which all night longHad roused the sea.
Wake
The act of waking, or state of being awake.
Rouse
To raise; to make erect.
Wake
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Rouse
To get or start up; to rise.
Night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Wake
A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
Rouse
To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed.
Wake
A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
Rouse
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Wake
A number of vultures assembled together.
Rouse
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
Wake
(nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
Rouse
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Fill the cup, and fill the can,Have a rouse before the morn.
Wake
The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
Rouse
Become active;
He finally bestirred himself
Wake
(aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
Rouse
Force or drive out;
The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
Wake
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
Rouse
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Wake
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
Rouse
Cause to become awake or conscious;
He was roused by the drunken men in the street
Please wake me at 6 AM.
Wake
The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.
Wake
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
The warlike wakes continued all the night,And funeral games played at new returning light.
The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim,Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Wake
An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
Wake
The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Wake
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
The father waketh for the daughter.
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.
I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
Wake
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Wake
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; - often with up.
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.
Wake
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Gentle airs due at their hourTo fan the earth now waked.
Then wake, my soul, to high desires.
Wake
To rouse from sleep; to awake.
The angel . . . came again and waked me.
Wake
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
Wake
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
To second lifeWaked in the renovation of the just.
Wake
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Wake
The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event);
The aftermath of war
In the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured
Wake
An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
Wake
The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward;
The motorboat's wake capsized the canoe
Wake
A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial;
There's no weeping at an Irish wake
Wake
Be awake, be alert, be there
Wake
Stop sleeping;
She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
Wake
Arouse or excite feelings and passions;
The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor
The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world
Wake old feelings of hatred
Wake
Make aware of;
His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation
Wake
Cause to become awake or conscious;
He was roused by the drunken men in the street
Please wake me at 6 AM.
