roust
verb
\ ˈrau̇st
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rousted;
rousting;
rousts
Definition of roust
: to drive (as from bed) roughly or unceremoniously
Examples of roust in a Sentence
The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise.
Recent Examples on the Web
Days later, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, rousted the teen from his bed and ordered him into the bed of a pickup truck. — Nicole Chavez, CNN, "University of Mississippi students were suspended after posing in front of an Emmett Till memorial sign with guns," 25 July 2019 Before dawn on March 11, 1982, the four were rousted in their San Salvador hotel and taken to secret police headquarters for interrogation by Moran. — Andrew Selsky, The Seattle Times, "New push for justice after 4 Dutch journalists slain in 1982," 25 Mar. 2019 To The Pathe Archives: Here are some Soviet Russian spies being rousted in Australia in 1954. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, "The Correction Matters. The Reporting Matters, Too.," 16 Mar. 2018 Encampments are rousted, spurring the people in them to move somewhere else. — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, "Here’s What’s Being Done to End L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis," 14 June 2018 Guests were rousted from areas like the popular Elkmont Campground and Metcalf Bottoms Picnic and directed to the park's Sugarlands Visitor Center, officials said. — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, "Campers told to get out quickly as rain creates torrent of water at campground," 28 June 2018 The rebel fighters came early, barreling into the rural Liberian village of Bakiedou just after dawn and rousting locals from their homes at gunpoint. — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, "'The only good Krahn man is a dead Krahn man': How culpable is Delco resident for ethnic atrocities in Liberia?," 22 June 2018 Turgel was imprisoned in several concentration camps after the Nazis invaded Poland and rousted her family from a comfortable home in Krakow. — kansascity, "In memoriam through June 15: Civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton, Neal Boyd of ‘AGT’," 15 June 2018 Teenagers come and go in surly waves, and the LAPD rousts a man who has fallen asleep. — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Magazine, "How Our Changing Habits Killed an L.A. Shopping Mall," 21 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'roust.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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roust
verb
English Language Learners Definition of roust
US
: to force (someone or something) to move from a place
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