Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To become awake; cease to sleep; be roused from sleep or a state resembling sleep: as, to awaken early.
- To come into being or action as if from sleep: as, hope awakened in his breast.
- To rouse from sleep or a state resembling sleep; cause to revive from a state of inaction.
- To call into being or action.
- [Awaken is chiefly used in figurative or transferred applications, awake being preferred in the sense of arousing from actual sleep.]
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cause to become awake.
- v. transitive To cause to become conscious.
- v. intransitive To stop sleeping.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
WordNet 3.0
- v. stop sleeping
- v. cause to become awake or conscious
- v. make aware
Etymologies
- awake + -en (Wiktionary)
- Middle English awakenen, from Old English āwæcnian : ā-, on, up; see a-2 + wæcnian, to waken; see waken. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Hearing you awaken from the dead, your cat runs screeching.”
“I (with sincere optimism and hope) believe that the common sense of your generation and those who went before will be rediscovered and reclaimed as people at large finally awaken from the almost complete slumber that has befallen us for the past 45 years or so.”
“I wanted to see the rest of the valley awaken from a sun drunk slumber and move about in its search for food and water, exercise and eventually, bed time.”
“Hell, its famous first line, “the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to awaken from the sleep of ignorance,” is quoted in the Tsinghua Book of Quotations, and being quoted there means that you've entered the canon.”
“They seemed to awaken from a dream, and the moment they were in the train, which fortunately came quite soon, they began to talk.”
“Some inoculates aver that they awaken from the first night's sleep with a dark brown taste in their mouths.”
“Sunday_ (alas! what recollections does not the word awaken) -- to brave the reception-room of my prison.”
““The Speaker,” the man replied, speaking slowly as if explaining to a child, “is the one charged with interpreting the will of the Computer, that it may guide us all to the Reward where your people can once more awaken from the Great Sleep.”
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
“Mike Myers stars as a 70’s swinger who has just awaken from a coma, will he find love in the 21st Century, find out this summer with Guruvy Baby!!”
“And with your word you will be able to return to the stillness, to the beginning where nothing is, where all of creation returns to silence, but your word will awaken it and you will name the gods and give voice to the trees and you will give nature a tongue to speak for you of the invisible that will again be visible through your word.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘awaken’.
-
luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
-
Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
-
my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
-
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
-
How I feel about you:
The sound of my name spoken by your lips... I need a word for that.
love, lust, secret, honey, milky, touch, flesh, skin, neptune, kiss, wet, taste and 82 more...
-
(((^)))
Enchancey.
naturally, easily, unlimited, aware, realizing, experiencing, before, during, after, among, expand, beyond and 31 more...
-
to nounen and adjectiven
Verbs constructed with the -en suffix.
hearten, gladden, flatten, smarten, blacken, frighten, lighten, brighten, liven, shorten, heighten, fatten and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for awaken.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.