This book will awaken your imagination.
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Awaken
//əˈweɪkən//
Synonyms for "awaken" (193 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Verb(18 words)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (96)
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147 translations across 46 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- çoj verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐγείρομαι verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- ἐγείρω verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Arabic
4 entries- أَفَاقَ verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- أَيْقَظَ verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- اِسْتَيْقَظَ verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- فاق verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Armenian
4 entries- արթնանալ verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- արթնացնել verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- արթնացնել verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- զարթնել verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Belarusian
4 entries- абудзі́ць verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- будзі́ць verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- разбу́джваць verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- разбудзі́ць verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бу́дя verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробу́дя verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробу́ждам verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Catalan
1 entries- despertar verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 叫醒 verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- 喚醒 /唤醒 verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- 醒 verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- 醒來 /醒来 verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Czech
3 entries- budit verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- probudit verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- vzbudit verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Danish
3 entries- vågne verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- vække verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- vække verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
Dutch
4 entries- wakker maken verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- wakker worden verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- wekken verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- zich opwekken verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Esperanto
2 entries- veki verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- vekiĝi verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Estonian
3 entries- äratama verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- äratama verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- ärkama verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Finnish
4 entries- havahduttaa verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- herättää verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- herättää verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- herätä verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
French
2 entries- réveiller verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- se réveiller verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Georgian
4 entries- გამოღვიძება verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- გაღვიძება verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- გაღვიძება verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- გაღვიძება verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
German
4 entries- aufwachen verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- aufwecken verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- erwachen verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- erwachen verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- reveye verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Hungarian
4 entries- felkelt verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- felébred verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- felébreszt verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- felébreszt verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
Ingrian
1 entries- havaita verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Interlingua
1 entries- eveliar verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Italian
2 entries- svegliare verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- svegliarsi verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Japanese
4 entries- 目を覚ます verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- 目覚める verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- 起きる verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- 起こす verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Kazakh
1 entries- ояту verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Korean
1 entries- 깨우다 verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Latin
4 entries- excito verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- excito verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- excitor verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- expergiscor verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Macedonian
2 entries- буди verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- разбуди verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Maltese
1 entries- qam verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- vekke verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- vekke verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- våkne verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Persian
4 entries- بلن کردن verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- بلند کردن verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- بیدار شدن verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- بیدار کردن verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Portuguese
4 entries- acordar verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- acordar verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- acordar verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- despertar verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Quechua
1 entries- hatariy verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Romanian
3 entries- deștepta verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- scula verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- trezi verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Russian
4 entries- буди́ть verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробуди́ть verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробуди́ть verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- пробуди́ться verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Sanskrit
3 entries- जागर्ति verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- बुध्यते verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- बोधयति verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dùisg verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- probuđívati verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- probúditi verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробу́дити verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробуђи́вати verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Slovak
3 entries- budiť verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- prebudiť verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- vzbudiť verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Slovene
2 entries- prebuditi verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- prebujati verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Spanish
3 entries- despertar verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- despertar verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- despertarse verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Swedish
3 entries- vakna verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- vakna upp verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- väcka verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Turkish
4 entries- ayıltmak verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- canlandırmak verb (transitive: to cause to become conscious)
- uyandırmak verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- uyanmak verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Ukrainian
4 entries- буди́ти verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробу́джувати verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- пробуди́ти verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- розбу́джувати verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Vietnamese
3 entries- thức dậy verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- tỉnh dậy verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- tỉnh táo verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Walloon
4 entries- dispierter verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- rewoeyî verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
- si dispierter verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
- si rewoeyî verb (intransitive: to stop sleeping)
Western Apache
1 entries- náô’da verb (transitive: to cause to become awake)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Those who look outward dream, but those who look inward awaken.
Source: tatoeba (1634796)
If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
Source: tatoeba (2444260)
May I awaken within the dream and grasp the fact that I am dreaming so that all dream-like beings may likewise awaken from the nightmare of illusory suffering and confusion.
Source: tatoeba (2495447)
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