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Awaken
Definitions
- 1 To cause to become awake. transitive
"Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes"
- 2 stop sleeping wordnet
- 3 To stop sleeping; awake. intransitive
"Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face."
- 4 cause to become awake or conscious wordnet
- 5 To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. figuratively, transitive
"Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!"
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- 6 make aware wordnet
- 7 To call to a sense of sin.
- 8 past participle of awake form-of, participle, past, rare
"[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away..."
- 9 To cause to become aware. figuratively, transitive
- 10 To become aware. figuratively, intransitive
"I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention."
Etymology
From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
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