awaken
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈweɪkən/
awaken (awakens, present participle awakening; past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- She awakened him by ringing the bell.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
- Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
- We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (rare) Past participle of awake
- 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- [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...
- 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- (transitive, to cause to become awake) knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
- (intransitive, to stop sleeping) awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
- (to bring into action) animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven
- (stop sleeping) fall asleep
- French: réveiller
- German: aufwecken, wecken
- Italian: svegliare
- Portuguese: acordar, despertar
- Russian: буди́ть
- Spanish: despertar
- French: se réveiller
- German: aufwachen, erwachen, wach werden
- Italian: svegliarsi
- Portuguese: acordar, despertar
- Russian: просыпа́ться
- Spanish: despertarse
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