waken

[ wey-kuh n ]

/ ˈweɪ kən /

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verb (used with object)

to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.

to rouse from inactivity; stir up or excite; arouse; awaken: to waken the reader's interest.

verb (used without object)

to wake, or become awake; awaken.

Origin of waken

before 900; Middle English waknen, Old English wæcnan; cognate with Old Norse vakna; akin to wake¹; see -en¹

OTHER WORDS FROM waken

wak·en·er, noun re·wak·en, verb un·wak·ened, adjective

Words nearby waken

wake-up call, wakeboarding, wakefield, wakeful, wakeless, waken, wakening, wakerife, waksman, wal, wal.

Example sentences from the Web for waken

Even this did not waken him, though he thought he was back at the shack by the tar kiln.

Ralph Granger's Fortunes |William Perry Brown
Some of these preserved within their hearts a generous instinct of maternity, which Julienne easily managed to waken.

Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo |Louis Guimbaud
She rose erectly and tried to waken, but encountered a mighty resistance.

Professor Huskins |Lettie M. Cummings
Rabelais was also a professional brother, who, equally with Smollet, attempted to waken up the profession by his satires.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present |Peter Charles Remondino

It is all like a curious dream from which we waken at Escuintla to take our eleven o'clock breakfast.

Under the Southern Cross |Elizabeth Robins

British Dictionary definitions for waken

waken

/ (ˈweɪkən) /

verb

to rouse or be roused from sleep or some other inactive state

Derived forms of waken

wakener, noun

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verb (used without object)

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verb

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waken

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

Origin of waken

OTHER WORDS FROM waken

Words nearby waken

Words related to waken

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