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awaken Definition

awak·en (ə wākən)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to awake; wake up; rouse

Etymology: ME awakenen < OE awæcnian, to awaken < on-, out + wæcnian, to waken

awaken Related Forms
awak·ener noun
awaken Synonyms

awaken

v.

  1. To arouse another

    awake, rouse, call, wake up; see wake 1.

  2. To excite

    stir up, stimulate, arouse, animate; see excite 1, 2, stir 1. See syn. study atstir.

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.

—Williams,William Carlos

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