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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of roust.

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Examples

  • Squatters tend to scatter before the morning rousts, and sneak back into the houses after dark.

    Cops and Squatters 2009

  • He concluded: "With obscenity busts they get your money, with drug busts they get your people, with intimidation they get your printer, with bombings they get your office, and if you can still manage to somehow get out a sheet, their distribution monopolies and rousts keep it from ever getting to the people."

    Let's Print It, Man RUSS SMITH 2011

  • Squatters tend to scatter before the morning rousts, and sneak back into the houses after dark.

    Cops and Squatters 2009

  • The noise rousts Kyle from wherever sleep has led him.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The noise rousts Kyle from wherever sleep has led him.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The noise rousts Kyle from wherever sleep has led him.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The noise rousts Kyle from wherever sleep has led him.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • No sooner is he in place than the FBI rousts him out.

    Murky Maneuvers In A Lethal Law Firm 2008

  • The next morning Dad once again rousts us out of our sleeping bags and heads us down to the lake.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

  • The next morning Dad once again rousts us out of our sleeping bags and heads us down to the lake.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

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