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awaken

[ uh-wey-kuh n ]

/ əˈweɪ kən /

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verb (used with or without object)

to awake; waken.

Origin of awaken

before 900; Middle English awak(e)nen, Old English awæcnian earlier onwæcnian. See a-¹, waken

OTHER WORDS FROM awaken

a·wak·en·a·ble, adjective a·wak·en·er, noun re·a·wak·en, verb well-a·wak·ened, adjective

Words nearby awaken

awa', awacs, await, awaji, awake, awaken, awakening, award, award wage, awardee, aware

Example sentences from the Web for reawaken

When Mercury hits Virgo, on Friday, it will reawaken dormant conflicts with loved ones.

Your Week: What the Stars Hold |Starsky + Cox |September 4, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
You just might reawaken their dreams or even one of your own, and one day when you least expect it, you will dream big again.

Death of the American Dream? |Rabbi Sherre Hirsch |January 8, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Could Helen have suspected that, with Pen's returning strength, his unhappy partiality for little Fanny would also reawaken?

The History of Pendennis |William Makepeace Thackeray
Originally, he endeavoured to reawaken the memory of the sexual trauma by means of the induction of profound hypnosis.

The Sexual Life of the Child |Albert Moll

He dropped his head upon his hand too, as trying to reawaken something he had lost.

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain |Charles Dickens
The storm in the heavens will pass by, but the tempest caused by a raging mob will reawaken with double fury.

"Unto Caesar" |Baroness Emmuska Orczy
I had gone into the club seeking distraction from my thoughts, trying to reawaken my old sympathies.

A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 |Florence Warden

British Dictionary definitions for reawaken

reawaken

/ (ˌriːəˈweɪkən) /

verb

to emerge or rouse from sleep

to become or make aware of (something) again