awaken
/əˈweɪkən/ verb C1- To cause to become awake.
- To stop sleeping; awake. · Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
- To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. · Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!· We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
- Of something previously dormant, to become active.
- To call to a sense of sin.
- To cause to become aware.
- To become aware. · I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.
He/she/it awakens · Past awakened · Past participle awakened · -ing form awakening
Verb forms
- Base form
- awaken
- He/she/it
- awakens
- Past
- awakened
- Past participle
- awakened
- -ing form
- awakening
From the library
You don’t know what it is to be awakened out of a sound sleep, after a long and arduous journey, by two great girls coming bounce down on you.”
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see.
In the night she awakened, with the stillness and the darkness about her, and the recollection of the day came over her like a wave of sorrow.
At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family.
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