awaken

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cause to become awake.

   • 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
2. 2

   To stop sleeping

   To stop sleeping; awake.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To bring into action (something previously dormant)

   To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Of something previously dormant, to become active.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To call to a sense of sin.

   3. 6

      past participle of awake

   4. 7

      To cause to become aware.

   5. 8

      To become aware.

      • I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.

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