Waken

//ˈweɪkən//

Synonyms for "waken" (60 found)

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Closest matches (12)

activate annoy awaken blow up call forth call up challenge

Verb(5 words)

arouse awake awaken bring round call

Strong matches (18)

Verb(2 words)

come alive disturb

energize enrage evoke excite fan fan the flame fire foment frenzy heat impassion incense incite inflame infuriate inspire

Related words (30)

key up kindle light up madden move pique provoke raise rally recall recollect refresh revive rise shake up steam up stimulate stir stir up summon up

Show 6 more words

turn on wake up warm whet whip up work up

Verb(4 words)

rouse stir wake wake up

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

5 entries

alter change change state modify turn

Synonyms

2 entries

awaken wake up

Related terms

1 entries

awaken

related to

5 entries

awaken rouse sleep stir wake

Translations

1 translations across 1 languages.

Esperanto

1 entries

veki verb (rouse from sleep)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I didn't expect you to be waken up so early in the morning.

Source: tatoeba (12942712)

Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

Source: wiktionary

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Source: wiktionary

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