Rouse and Try

Rouse

Rouse verb - To cause to stop sleeping.

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Try and rouse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Rouse".

Nearby Words: rousing, roused, roust

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Rouse and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rouse" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

Alpha 3: Bison abducts Ryu and injects him with a portion of his Psycho Power, forcing Sagat to try and rouse him out of this as Ken and Sakura face Bison.

Source: Fighting Your Friend
When Frollo has him chained to the belltower of Notre Dame, the hunchback can only remark how It's All My Fault as the gargoyle trio try to rouse him;

Source: Heroic BSOD / Film
Emile Zola's Germinal, the 13th book in Les Rougon-Macquart, tells the story of the young idealist Étienne who is looking for work in an impoverished mining village and decides to try to rouse the oppressed workers to rebellion.

Source: Literature / Germinal

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