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arouse
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v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise,
provoke]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come
alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off,
drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod
off]
3: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by
magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild
birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
[syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward,
call forth]
4: cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate
me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" [syn:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk
up] [ant: calm, de-energise, de-energize, sedate,
tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize]
5: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
6: to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping
children began to stir" [syn: arouse, stir]
7: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male
audience" [syn: arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind
up]
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browse
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n 1: vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that
is suitable for animals to eat; "a deer needs to eat twenty
pounds of browse every day"
2: reading superficially or at random [syn: browse,
browsing]
3: the act of feeding by continual nibbling [syn: browse,
browsing]
v 1: shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help,
I'm just browsing" [syn: shop, browse]
2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]
3: look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything
in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the
internet or the world wide web" [syn: browse, surf]
4: eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at
the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing" [syn:
browse, graze]
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carouse
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n 1: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn:
carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up]
v 1: engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out
carousing last night" [syn: carouse, roister, riot]
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cows
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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drowse
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n 1: a light fitful sleep [syn: doze, drowse]
v 1: sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: snooze,
drowse, doze]
2: be on the verge of sleeping; "The students were drowsing in
the 8 AM class"
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espouse
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v 1: choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies,
strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement";
"The candidate espouses Republican ideals" [syn: adopt,
follow, espouse]
2: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed,
conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]
3: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and
use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They
adopted the Jewish faith" [syn: espouse, embrace,
adopt, sweep up]
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rouse
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v 1: become active; "He finally bestirred himself" [syn:
bestir, rouse]
2: force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2
A.M." [syn: rout out, drive out, force out, rouse]
3: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker
charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn:
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite,
charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet,
quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise,
tranquillize]
4: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
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souse
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n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn:
alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush,
soaker, souse]
2: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
3: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, souse,
sousing]
v 1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his
hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop,
souse]
2: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip
the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, souse,
plunge, douse]
3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: souse, soak,
inebriate, hit it up]
4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
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chouse
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v 1: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat,
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
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scouse
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n 1: a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by
sailors [syn: lobscouse, lobscuse, scouse]
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taos
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n 1: a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
2: an artist colony in northern New Mexico
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allows
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boughs
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bows
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brows
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mows
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prows
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vows
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aus
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chows
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dhows
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houghs
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houze
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howes
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howze
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krauze
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prowse
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schmaus
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thous
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wows
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clowes
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plows
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