Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To awake again.
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- verb To
wake up again.
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Examples
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Only from without could reality impact upon him and reawake within him an awareness of reality.
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Victor David Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has written an open letter to Europe asking us to “reawake, rediscover your heritage, and join with us in defending the idea of the West from this latest illiberal scourge of Islamic fascism.”
Brussels Gonzo | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion 2009
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Then once you were "awake" you would get older, then "die" again but only to reawake.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2003
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In brief was not this the site of an ancient volcano, one which had slept through ages, but whose inner fires might yet reawake?
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Might it reawake the dying nerve if the family were living close against her eyes?
Howards End 1924
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Only from without could reality impact upon him and reawake within him an awareness of reality.
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Might it reawake the dying nerve if the family were living close against her eyes?
Howards End Forster, E. M. 1910
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Only from without could reality impact upon him and reawake within him an awareness of reality.
The Red One Jack London 1896
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To lie thus in deadly weakness and drink in the traits of the beloved, is to reawake to love from whatever shock of disillusion.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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He began also to observe a certain imperiousness in Harriett's manner to Elsie herself, which struck him as being particularly ungraceful, and the old pity began to reawake the old love.
Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867
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