Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To rewake (another) or to become awake again.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To waken again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
awaken again; torewake
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Examples
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We need to rewaken this spirit in our country, the spirit of goodness, kindness strength, honor.
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Long after she had outgrown the little rural school scraps of poetry returned to her to rewaken the enthusiasm of childhood and to teach her again to "hear the lark within the songless egg and find the fountain where they wailed, 'Mirage!'"
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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Haute-Ville; thence the music I heard certainly floated; it was hushed now, but it might rewaken.
The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904
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These were words to rewaken all the happiest purposes of my expedition, and they recovered me from the nerveless, sinking state into which my exhaustion had cast me, as if by a miracle.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796
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Soc. _, 1899, 1084-1089) drew attention to bromine absorption methods and tried to rewaken interest in them.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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“I took a route well known, and went up towards the palatial and royal Haute-Ville; thence the music I heard certainly floated; it was hushed now, but it might rewaken.
The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912
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