3. awaken, awake, wake up, waken, wake, bestir, get up; revive, become conscious, come to, come around, become aware. rousing, adj. 1. lively, animated, spirited, active, brisk; enlivened, invigorated, energetic, energized, vivified, vitalized, inspirited; vigorous, spry, sprightly, Inf. peppy, Inf. snappy; swift, quick, prompt, alacri-tous; airy, breezy, jaunty, zestful, sportive; zealous, enthusiastic, fervent, fired up; jumping, hopping, swinging.
2. extraordinary, great, tremendous, remarkable; All Sl. whopping, whooping, thumping, thundering, whaling, spanking. roustabout, n. 1. dock-worker, wharf laborer, lumper, dock-walloper, longshoreman, Naut. deck hand; stevedore, cargo loader; circus worker.
2. unskilled laborer, common laborer U.S. roughneck. rout1, n. 1. conquest, vanquishment, defeat, subjugation, subdual; drubbing, beating, Sl. pasting, Sl. shellacking, trouncing; discomfiture, overwhelming, trampling, overcoming, overpowering, overthrow, wipeout, upset; debacle, disorderly flight, complete dispersal, total repulse.
2. rabble, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, canaille; mob, herd, horde, clamorous multitude.
3. evening party, soiree; ball dance, ridotto. -v. 4. defeat, conquer, vanquish, subdue, subjugate; discomfit, overwhelm, Sl. mop or wipe the floor with, overrun, trample, Inf run into the ground; crush, overthrow, smash, thrash, trounce, trim, whip, drub, floor; worst, hash, Sl. skin, U.S. Sl. skunk, Inf. lick, Sl. cream, Sl. shellac, Sl. pulverize; break, quash, destroy, Sl. zap, clobber, polish off, Sl. do in; beat, get the better of, best, upset, upend, Inf. whomp; disperse, break up, scatter. rout2, v. 1. search, rummage, ransack, hunt, rifle through, look through, Sl. paw through, explore; turn over, turn inside out, turn upside down, forage; look into, look about for, examine, pry into, poke around for, peer into, snoop around, smell out; shuffle through, sift through.
2. Usu. rout out find, find out, come across, discover, uncover, unearth; bring up, bring to light, dig up, ferret out; root out, fish out, come up with. route, n. 1. course, itinerary, way, path, road, Brit. Sl. toby, pavement; roadway, highway, turnpike, pike, tollroad; freeway, expressway, parkway, causeway, throughway; speedway, autobahn, superhighway, U.S. Inf interstate; main road, highroad, thoroughfare, public road; street, lane, terrace, circle, row; avenue, boulevard, concourse, strip, Inf. drag; airway.
2. round, lap, track, beat, ambit, turn, spin, compass; cycle, circuit, circle.
3. go the route see [s.t.] through, complete, finish, terminate; achieve, accomplish.
-v. 4. chart, map, map out, set the itinerary.
5. forward, send, mail. routine, n. 1. pattern, system, method, way, regular course of procedure, daily routine; rote, treadmill, groove, rut, beaten path; habit, habitude, matter of course, second nature, practice, wont, custom; convention, order, consuetude, observance, regulation, rule, protocol, formality, bureaucratic rigmarole, red tape.
2. act, performance, number, part, bit, Inf. shtik.