Other forms: rousted
To roust is to rouse somebody out of a place roughly. Roust them out of bed, rousted from the building, roust him out.
The roughness is in the word — you rouse a sleeper gently and roust one out — and it usually takes out. In American use it also means police moving people on. A roustabout is an unskilled labourer on a rig or in a circus, from the same word. Note that roust is a variant of rouse.
1verbroustTo rouse somebody out of a place roughly.
“The sergeant rousted the sleeping soldiers out of their tents before sunrise.”
roust is a rough rousing.
Roust is a seventeenth-century variant of rouse, perhaps influenced by rout, to drive out.
1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire