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rabble-roused

rabble-roused is the simple past and past participle of rabble-rouse.

Meaning of rabble-rouse

Verb

rabble-rouse (third-person singular simple present rabble-rouses, present participle rabble-rousing, simple past and past participle rabble-roused)

  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/2017-0...

Questions about rabble-roused

What is rabble-roused the simple past and past participle of?
Rabble-roused is the simple past and past participle of rabble-rouse.

Words near rabble-roused in the dictionary

  1. rabbity
  2. rabble
  3. rabble rouser
  4. rabble rousers
  5. rabble-rouse
  6. rabble-roused
  7. rabble-rouser
  8. rabble-rousers
  9. rabble-rouses
  10. rabble-rousing
  11. rabbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rabble-roused (page history and authors); rabble-rouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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