Meaning

(transitive) To cause to become awake..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.
2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
3. (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
4. (intransitive) Of something previously dormant, to become active.
5. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
6. (rare) past participle of awake
7. (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
8. (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• awakens
• awakening
• awakened

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When Should You Use Awaken?

Use awaken when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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