waken
IPA: wˈeɪkʌn
verb
- (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
- (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
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Examples of "waken" in Sentences
- Two children are wakened by a smoke alarm.
- He dislikes chatting and being waken by a phone.
- Metaxas, was waken up in the middle of the night.
- After a slow start, the season seems to have waken up.
- I once had a dream, only to have waken in this nightmare.
- Sims will only faint from fire, starvation and can be waken.
- Lawson attempts to wake her, but Yohko provokes her to waken.
- Aye too, once had a dream, only to have waken in this nightmare.
- Asleep in a Krell laboratory, Morbius is wakened by Altaira's scream.
- The Family is then waken up by loud techno music and flashing lights.
- Beau doesn't just waken her physical desires; he also awakens her desire to sing the blues.
- She hopes to waken the black dragon and merge with it, like Momoka has merged with a dragon.
- Words have great benefit when they are used to shake and waken ourselves, but they can also lead us off track.
- So, the past nine years the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S., except for it has waken up the Muslims for Islam.
- Some day I shall waken from a supposed hour's lingering here and find myself an old man with white hair and ragged coat, as in that fairy tale we read the other night.
- Because at night he could put them on deck and sleep without watching guard, so that if "savages" stole onto his decks at night, their shouts of pain when they stepped on the tacks would waken him.
- Thus a South Slavonian housebreaker sometimes begins operations by throwing a dead mans bone over the house, saying, with pungent sarcasm, As this bone may waken, so may these people waken; after that not a soul in the house can keep his or her eyes open.
- We must waken, Muske-Dukes admonishes, to our need to empathize, to overcome our great human tendency to forget, to distance, to protect ourselves from the conditions of others, to things happening elsewhere, something that is perhaps most dangerously possible in language.