awaken

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Frank was the first to awaken, and he shook Barney to rouse him.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1.

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  • She would always awaken, at least briefly, and pull him into an embrace. —  EQMM,August2008
  • Girard had so little hope left that he hardly bothered to awaken, and his voice was out of practice. —  Man from Mundania
  • Now, what presents itself to my eyes when I awaken is the planet; I have considerable trouble in finding again there the MOI which interested me formerly, and which I begin to' call YOU in the plural. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • The bluff was suddenly peopled with additional hibernating packbears that had yet to awaken, and were rousing themselves as he slipped and scrambled by, seizing the bushes, and working awkwardly but rapidly lower, as with ripping popping sounds the tough rootlets tore loose, and he shot past to the next handhold. —  Analog March, 1971
  • I stayed with him until I was sure he would not awaken, aching with helpless tenderness. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English awakenen, from Old English āwæcnian : ā-, on, up; see a-2 + wæcnian, to waken; see waken.

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  1. from Middle English awakenen, awaknen, from Anglo-Saxon āwæcnan, present used with strong preterit āwōc (see awake, v.), also āwæcnian (preterit āwæcnede, past participle āwæcned), awake; orig. intransitive, but in modern use more commonly transitive: see awake, v.
 

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