awakenverb/əˈweɪkən/

• 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

  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

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

  • Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
  • We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
• 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.
• 5

  lifestylereligiontheologyTo call to a sense of sin.

• 6

  To cause to become aware.

• 7

  To become aware.

  • I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.
  • [S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.

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