Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wake up; awake; come to.
- To awaken; arouse from sleep or swoon.
- To daunt; quell; cow.
- To moderate; abate.
- To become moderated or less vehement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To subdue; to daunt.
- verb obsolete To awaken; to arouse.
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Examples
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K. has 'adaw, _to awaken_; but it is used by the poet Spencer _to slacken_'; hence the meaning I have given.]
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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