Call and Rouse

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Call verb - Rouse somebody from sleep with a call.

Usage example: I was called at 5 A.M. this morning

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Rouse is a synonym for call in action topic. In some cases you can use "Rouse" instead a verb "Call", when it comes to topics like awaken, wake up, waken, yell declaration.

Nearby Words: calling, called, caller, callback, callable

Rouse verb - To cause to stop sleeping.

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Call is a synonym for rouse in wake topic. Sometimes you can use "Call" instead a verb "Rouse", if it concerns topics such as wake up.

Nearby Words: rousing, roused, roust

They call the emergency services and rouse the household and guests including the heretofore unseen Aunt Augusta.

Source: Finish Dialogue in Unison
Subverted in Detective Conan: the murderer sets up the body of his victim to call him while in full view of his friends, hoping it would give him an alibi by (falsely) invoking this trope, but Conan sees through the rouse.

Source: Disconnected by Death
However, President Obama just learned that the best way to rouse an entire nation to fiery righteous indignation is to call Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka and other Nazi extermination camps "Polish death camps." note It's kinda like saying that 9/11 attacks on WTC were acts of American terrorism.

Source: Useful Notes / Misplaced Nationalism

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