awaken
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
Inflected forms:
form: awakens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: awakening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: awakened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: awakened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to become awake.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes
gloss: To stop sleeping; awake.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.
gloss: To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
He tries to awaken in them self-respect and reverence for their own spiritual culture.
On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.
gloss: Of something previously dormant, to become active.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
gloss: To call to a sense of sin.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to become aware.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To become aware.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.
[S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.
Synonyms: arouse
awake
awaken
bring round
cry
knock up
rouse
roust
uprouse
wake
wake up
waken
Antonyms: anesthetize
belull
cradle
knock out
lull
put down
put to sleep
Related words: reveille
wakefulness
Derived words: awakenable
awakener
awakenment
reawaken
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: արթնացնել
roman: artʻnacʻnel
lang: Danish
word: vække
lang: Estonian
word: äratama
lang: Finnish
word: herättää
lang: Finnish
word: havahduttaa
lang: Georgian
word: გაღვიძება
roman: gaɣviʒeba
lang: German
word: erwachen
lang: German
word: wecken
lang: Hungarian
word: felébreszt
lang: Hungarian
word: felkelt
lang: Hungarian
word: kelt
lang: Hungarian
word: ébreszt
lang: Irish
word: múscail
lang: Latin
word: excito
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vekke
lang: Portuguese
word: acordar
lang: Russian
word: пробужда́ть
roman: probuždátʹ
lang: Russian
word: пробуди́ть
roman: probudítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: despertar
lang: Turkish
word: canlandırmak
lang: Turkish
word: ayıltmak