awaken
IPA: ʌwˈeɪkʌn
verb
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
- (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.
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Examples of "awaken" in Sentences
- The radiation awakens the mummy.
- They are the third tribe to fully awaken.
- The Nestene attempts to awaken the others.
- She awakens in the hospital as the phone rings.
- The Night Watchman of the forest, Mr. Owl, awakens.
- That night, they are awakened by a clatter on the roof.
- The essentialness of the problem awakened the students.
- A farmer and his wife awaken in the middle of the night.
- Hearing you awaken from the dead, your cat runs screeching.
- It was dedicated to the awakening of the consciousness of people.
- Silence of the mind is the prerequisite to awakening spirituality.
- Sunday_ (alas! what recollections does not the word awaken) -- to brave the reception-room of my prison.
- Some inoculates aver that they awaken from the first night's sleep with a dark brown taste in their mouths.
- They seemed to awaken from a dream, and the moment they were in the train, which fortunately came quite soon, they began to talk.
- Mike Myers stars as a 70’s swinger who has just awaken from a coma, will he find love in the 21st Century, find out this summer with Guruvy Baby!!
- I wanted to see the rest of the valley awaken from a sun drunk slumber and move about in its search for food and water, exercise and eventually, bed time.
- “The Speaker,” the man replied, speaking slowly as if explaining to a child, “is the one charged with interpreting the will of the Computer, that it may guide us all to the Reward where your people can once more awaken from the Great Sleep.
- Hell, its famous first line, “the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to awaken from the sleep of ignorance,” is quoted in the Tsinghua Book of Quotations, and being quoted there means that you've entered the canon.
- I (with sincere optimism and hope) believe that the common sense of your generation and those who went before will be rediscovered and reclaimed as people at large finally awaken from the almost complete slumber that has befallen us for the past 45 years or so.
- And with your word you will be able to return to the stillness, to the beginning where nothing is, where all of creation returns to silence, but your word will awaken it and you will name the gods and give voice to the trees and you will give nature a tongue to speak for you of the invisible that will again be visible through your word.