The cry roused me from my sleep.

Thus roused, her friends she gathers. All await / her summons, who the tyrant fear or hate. / Some ships at hand, chance-anchored in the bay / they seize and load them with the costly freight, / and far off o'er the deep is borne away / Pygmalion's hoarded pelf. A woman leads the way."

We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train.

I rang the bell and roused the house.

The sound roused her from sleep.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

He was roused by a loud knocking at the door.

He was roused by a knocking at the door.

He is a lion when roused.

The slogan was designed to rouse the people.