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rabble-rouse en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To act as a rabble rouser; to stir up a mob of people.
    • In her important and timely book, The Enemy Within, the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi, recalled how her party had rabble-roused the party faithful at conferences and meetings against gay people and enacted legislation that stigmatised them from birth. 2017 April 6, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, “Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill”, in House of Lords Hansard^(https://web.archive.org/web/20220118102936/https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2017-04-06/debates/DBCDBCA0-DBBE-4C28-9A01-34326423D743/MerchantShipping(HomosexualConduct)Bill#contribution-BF0F52A7-F982-4704-8B68-4F4A4CA1ED16), volume 782, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022, column 1178:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rabble-roused Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rabble-roused Tense=Past lexicographic
rabble-rouses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rabble-rousing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic