awaken
awaken
Definition
awak·en (ə wā′kən)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to awake; wake up; rouse
Etymology: ME awakenen < OE awæcnian, to awaken < on-, out + wæcnian, to waken
awak′·ener noun
awaken
Synonyms
awaken
v.
awaken
Usage Examples
Object
- conscience: Justification from God is a sufficient answer to an awakened conscience.
- curiosity: He hadn't been there in years, but the old memory had awakened a curiosity, he felt pulled in that direction.
- sleeper: The day that followed the wreck was well advanced before the sleepers awakened.
- dawn: Linger to see the moonlight scattered through the temple ruins, or rise early for the gently awakening dawn over the acropolis.
- sinner: The awakened sinner always has a question, the marrow of which is, " What must I do to be saved?
- imagination: The Lamaze Clutch Cube baby toy helps awaken imagination - imagine it's a steering wheel.
Subject
Modifying Another Word
- rudely: Remember none of us likes to be rudely awakened from deep, drunken slumber at the Belfry.
- spiritually: The majority of people are not even spiritually awakened, while among those who are awakened many are at quite an elementary stage.
- suddenly: Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later.
- newly: Her sessions have attracted all the big names in this newly awakened field.
- slowly: The Ego then awakens slowly to consciousness from a slumbering or torpid state which it usually falls into at death.
- gradually: As you gradually awaken and become more alert, the peaks and valleys begin to shrink in size and are spaced closer together.
Preposition: in
- morning: Two days more, and they were awakened in the morning by the sound of seagulls and the smell of salt in the air.
- middle: And even if he did, he'd be angry at being awakened in the middle of the night.
Preposition: from
- slumber: Remember none of us likes to be rudely awakened from deep, drunken slumber at the Belfry.
- sleep: Cold professors, empty lamps, have been awakened from the sleep of death.
- dream: She is not dead - she doth not sleep; She hath awakened from the dream of life.
Preposition: by
- sound: About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in the house.
awaken Quotes
One by one the objects are definedö It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceöStill, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
