lower vs rouse

lower

verb
  • to pull down 

  • To decrease in value, amount, etc. 

  • To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program. 

  • To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of 

  • To bring down; to humble 

  • (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. 

  • To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down 

  • To reduce the height of 

  • To depress as to direction 

  • To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. 

  • To make less elevated 

  • To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease 

adj
  • bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object 

  • Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly. 

  • older 

rouse

verb
  • To pull by main strength; to haul. 

  • To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. 

  • To provoke (someone) to action or anger. 

  • To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.). 

  • To cause to start from a covert or lurking place. 

  • To tell off; to criticise. 

noun
  • An arousal. 

  • The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. 

  • A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. 

  • An official ceremony over drinks. 

  • Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper. 

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