Words that rhyme with strouse

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]

n 1: a top worn by women

n 1: a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats

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]

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]

v 1: put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights" [syn: douse, put out] 2: wet thoroughly [syn: douse, dowse] 3: dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: dip, douse, duck] 4: 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] 5: lower quickly; "douse a sail" 6: slacken; "douse a rope" [syn: douse, dowse] 7: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]

n 1: searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy] v 1: wet thoroughly [syn: douse, dowse] 2: use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal 3: slacken; "douse a rope" [syn: douse, dowse] 4: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]

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"

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]

n 1: a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter 2: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) [syn: Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss]

n 1: flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil 2: popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet v 1: hunt grouse 2: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler]

n 1: a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" 2: the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house" [syn: firm, house, business firm] 3: the members of a religious community living together 4: the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house" 5: an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses" 6: aristocratic family line; "the House of York" 7: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house" 8: (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house] 9: the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet" 10: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 11: a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full" [syn: theater, theatre, house] 12: a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house" v 1: contain or cover; "This box houses the gears" 2: provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" [syn: house, put up, domiciliate]

n 1: wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals [syn: louse, sucking louse] 2: a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, louse, insect, dirt ball] 3: any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants [syn: plant louse, louse] 4: wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds [syn: bird louse, biting louse, louse]

n 1: any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails 2: a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse] 3: person who is quiet or timid 4: a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball" [syn: mouse, computer mouse] v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot] 2: manipulate the mouse of a computer

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]

n 1: a person's partner in marriage [syn: spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half]

n 1: German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949) [syn: Strauss, Richard Strauss] 2: Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899) [syn: Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Younger] 3: Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849) [syn: Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Elder]

n 1: a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949 [syn: Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic]

v 1: haul with a tackle [syn: bowse, bouse]

n 1: United States playwright (1893-1966) [syn: Crouse, Russel Crouse]