Awaken

Word AWAKEN
Character 6
Hyphenation a wak en
Pronunciations /əˈweɪkən/

Definitions and meanings of "Awaken"

What do we mean by awaken?

To wake up. intransitive verb

To become aware of something. intransitive verb

To cause to wake up. intransitive verb

To cause (someone) to become aware; alert or enlighten. intransitive verb

To stir up or produce (a memory or feeling, for example). intransitive verb

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.

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. verb

To cause to become awake. verb

To cause to become conscious. verb

To stop sleeping. verb

Stop sleeping verb

Cause to become awake or conscious verb

Make aware verb

To become conscious after having slept.

To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

To excite or to stir up something latent.

To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Awaken

The word "awaken" in example sentences

Hearing you awaken from the dead, your cat runs screeching. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They seemed to awaken from a dream, and the moment they were in the train, which fortunately came quite soon, they began to talk. ❋ Edith (1923)

Some inoculates aver that they awaken from the first night's sleep with a dark brown taste in their mouths. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Sunday_ (alas! what recollections does not the word awaken) -- to brave the reception-room of my prison. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)

“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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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!! ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Laura Esquivel (2007)

Thanks to them, we shall the more easily traverse the long galleries, painted and frescoed, of this enormous palace, -- a palace still unfinished, inasmuch as it lacks those Scenes of Military Life whose titles awaken dreams within us: ❋ Anatole Cerfberr (1865)

He will "awaken" in 2009 and once again be a man out of time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since we're going to be talking about sleep, it may be useful to review the word "awaken" or "awakening" again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Similiarly, while art might in some instances "awaken" our compassionate impulses, almost always when works of art or literature take this as an explicit goal the effort fails, often devolving into didacticism or sentimentality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

~ Awakening the Integral Self: A Historical Sweep of Human Emergence -- "In this article, Nasser argues that human emergence is an inevitable part of the ongoing progressive evolution of the Kosmos - and if we 'awaken' to our own integral heritage we could catalyze the healing our civilization and create a more just and spiritual world." ❋ William Harryman (2007)

Its biggest downside is that, on occasion, computers fail to "awaken" properly from this mode, and you have to do a full restart. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dr Naseem said to the audience that he was mentioning these matters to "awaken" them rather than frighten them, so that "the network" of these organisations "can be broken". ❋ Unknown (2007)

It's really nice to see Nobel laureates and 650 economists kind of awaken to the realities of what an economy is about. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He also told her that the aliens have sent the enabling protein every hundred million Earth years or so to 'awaken' the virus to see what kind of life has evolved here and whether it was worth inhabiting. ❋ Cook, Robin, 1940- (2000)

The social worker makes it his aim to "awaken" conscience, to cultivate it, to bring it up to a high standard. ❋ George Stuart Fullerton (N/A)

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