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adjective

as in awakened

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verb

past tense of roust
as in woke
to force (someone or something) to move from a place The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rousted
  1. awakened
  2. woke
  3. sleepless
  4. roused
  5. awake
  6. wakeful
Adjective
  • Angine desperately returns to the store, again and again, to get her fix from Malaise, her face reddening from blood just below the surface, a canvas of her awakened desire.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
Definition of awakened
Verb
  • The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Lange's husband went home and woke her up to share the good news, the lottery said.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
Definition of woke
Adjective
  • No, special teams coach Dave Toub shouldn’t spend sleepless nights scheming up how to improve his team’s field-goal defense for next season.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 15 July 2026
  • Today, there are no more bodies left to bury, but those sleepless nights remain.
    — Bo Evans, CBS News, 2 July 2026
Definition of sleepless
Verb
  • As the fires spread, roughly 2,900 people — many roused from sleep — were told to evacuate or warned to prepare to flee.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • After Israel struck a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut on Sunday, Israelis went to bed expecting to be roused by incoming missiles from Iran.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
Definition of roused
Adjective
  • No algorithm lies awake at night worrying about whether a struggling child finally learned to read.
    — Dana Suskind, Time, 14 July 2026
  • If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
Definition of awake
Adjective
  • Low to medium doses show a reduction in the alpha frequency of brain waves (which correspond to relaxed and wakeful states), along with rising entropy, a signature finding of sober brains sinking deeper into a trip.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Having the right pillow can make a big difference between a peaceful night’s sleep and a restless, wakeful one.
    — Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of wakeful
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