Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to roust
Participle: rousted
Gerund: rousting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | roust |
| you | roust |
| he;she;it | rousts |
| we | roust |
| you | roust |
| they | roust |
Perfect
| I | have rousted |
| you | have rousted |
| he;she;it | has rousted |
| we | have rousted |
| you | have rousted |
| they | have rousted |
Past
| I | rousted |
| you | rousted |
| he;she;it | rousted |
| we | rousted |
| you | rousted |
| they | rousted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rousted |
| you | had rousted |
| he;she;it | had rousted |
| we | had rousted |
| you | had rousted |
| they | had rousted |
Future
| I | will roust |
| you | will roust |
| he;she;it | will roust |
| we | will roust |
| you | will roust |
| they | will roust |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rousted |
| you | will have rousted |
| he;she;it | will have rousted |
| we | will have rousted |
| you | will have rousted |
| they | will have rousted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | roust |
| you | roust |
| he;she;it | roust |
| we | roust |
| you | roust |
| they | roust |
Perfect
| I | have rousted |
| you | have rousted |
| he;she;it | have rousted |
| we | have rousted |
| you | have rousted |
| they | have rousted |
Imperfect
| I | rousted |
| you | rousted |
| he;she;it | rousted |
| we | rousted |
| you | rousted |
| they | rousted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rousted |
| you | had rousted |
| he;she;it | had rousted |
| we | had rousted |
| you | had rousted |
| they | had rousted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would roust |
| you | would roust |
| he;she;it | would roust |
| we | would roust |
| you | would roust |
| they | would roust |
Perfect
| I | would have rousted |
| you | would have rousted |
| he;she;it | would have rousted |
| we | would have rousted |
| you | would have rousted |
| they | would have rousted |
Imperative
| you | roust |
| we | Let's roust |
| you | roust |
Verbs conjugated like 'roust'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'roust'
doust,
froust,
joust,
oust,
roast,
roist,
roost,
rouse,
rout,
rust,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- rout out of bed
- awaken
- to cause somebody to stop sleeping
- arouse, awake, awaken, bring round, cry, knock up, rouse, uprouse, wake, wake up, waken
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.
Sample Sentences
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"Why didn't you roust me out?" / "Well, I tried to, but I couldn't; I couldn't budge you." / "Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast. I'll be along in a minute." [1884, Mark Twain, chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:]
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1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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Yesterday morn at 6:30 they rousted me up & gave me 2 shots in the behind.
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My client is an ex-convict. He's been constantly harassed by the police... subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation. He's even been denied an adequate place to live! To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted. [1962, 00:28:45 from the start, in Cape Fear:]