rouse

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rouse /raʊz/

▶verb

• 1 bring out of sleep; awaken.

  ■ cease to sleep; wake up.

• 2 bring out of inactivity.

• 3 excite; provoke: his evasiveness roused my curiosity.

• 4 stir (a liquid, especially beer while brewing).

– derivatives
rousable adjective,
rouser noun.

– origin ME (orig. as a hawking and hunting term): prob. from Anglo-Norman Fr., of unknown origin.