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Waken

//ˈweɪkən// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To wake or rouse from sleep. transitive
  2. 2
    stop sleeping wordnet
  3. 3
    To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. intransitive

    "Early, Turnus wakening with the light."

  4. 4
    cause to become awake or conscious wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

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