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(əweɪkən)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense awakens, present participle awakening, past tense, past participle awakened
1. verb
To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
[literary]
The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in and an understanding of foreigncultures. [VERB noun]
2. ergative verb
When you awaken to a fact or when someone awakens you to it, you become aware of it.
[literary]
...the picture of the Earth, so blue and fragile, that awakened a generation to theEarth's mortality. [VERB noun to noun]
3. verb
When you awaken, or when something or someone awakens you, you wake up.
[literary]
Unfortunately, Grandma always seems to awaken at awkward moments. [VERB]
He was snoring when Desmond awakened him. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: awake, wake, wake up, revive More Synonyms of awaken

awaken in British English

(əˈweɪkən)
verb literary
1.  to awaken to something
2. (intransitive)
to regain consciousness after being asleep
Unfortunately, Grandma always seems to awaken at awkward moments.
3. (transitive)
to cause (someone) to regain consciousness after being asleep
He was snoring when Desmond awakened him.
4. (transitive)
to cause (an emotion, etc) to start to be experienced
The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in and an understanding of foreigncultures.
Your ex has awakened old passions.
5.  to awaken someone to something

awaken in American English

(əˈweɪkən)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
to awake; wake up; rouse
SIMILAR WORDS:  stir
Derived forms
awakener (aˈwakener)
noun
Word origin
ME awakenen < OE awæcnian, to awaken < on-, out + wæcnian, to waken

Examples of 'awaken' in a sentence
awaken

I was wary of it awakening all my feelings again but excited too and knew I would not turn her down.
The Sun (2016)
 Something was awakened in me really quick.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
 Something that always awakened a cold beast deep in my gut.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
His friend has awakened something in me that my man had suppressed.
The Sun (2010)
Or the first man awakened to a sense of the divine.
Christianity Today (2000)
Its looks alone should be enough to awaken interest.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was as if people had been awakened.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This person will awaken many feelings and fulfil a secret dream.
The Sun (2006)
 Feelings had awakened in her which were new.
Frances Hodgson Burnett Emily Fox-Seton (1901)
He shows moments of consciousness and awakening.
The Sun (2014)
They awakened interest in nature study and gave new values to much we had hitherto taken for granted.
Smout, T.C. & Wood, Sydney Scottish Voices 1745-1960 (1990)
He credited his three years in Canada with awakening his interest in wider opportunities for the company.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The rudely awakened person should wait 20 minutes before committing himself or herself.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The poem balances the driver's sleeping consciousness with her awakening subconscious.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was not until 1933 that popular interest was first awakened after the first picture apparently showing a monster was published.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You can awaken something deeper.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The light flashes on and I am rudely awakened.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She added: 'He shows moments of consciousness and awakening.
The Sun (2014)
You may have awakened these feelings, you're upset about it and want no part in his relationship ending.
The Sun (2015)
 People are finally awakening.
The Sun (2011)
It seems like the middle of the night when I'm rudely awakened by a radio.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

In other languages
awaken

British English: awaken VERB
To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in foreign cultures.
  • American English: awaken
  • Brazilian Portuguese: despertar
  • Chinese: 唤醒
  • European Spanish: despertar
  • French: susciter
  • German: wecken
  • Italian: destare
  • Japanese: 呼び起こす
  • Korean: 감정을 불러 일으키다
  • European Portuguese: despertar
  • Latin American Spanish: despertar

(verb) 
Definition
to awake
He was snoring when I awakened him.
Synonyms
awake
I awoke to the sound of the wind in the trees.
wake
Seeing his childhood home cheered him as it woke beautiful memories.
wake up
revive
They tried in vain to revive him.
arouse
We were aroused from our sleep by a knocking at the door.
rouse

Additional synonyms

in the sense of arouse
Definition
to awaken from sleep
We were aroused from our sleep by a knocking at the door.
Synonyms
awaken,
wake up,
rouse,
waken
in the sense of revive
Definition
to bring or be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
They tried in vain to revive him.
Synonyms
bring round,
awaken,
animate,
rouse,
resuscitate,
bring back to life
in the sense of rouse
Synonyms
rise,
come to,
wake,
get up,
arouse,
awaken,
bestir

Nearby words of
awaken

  • avowed
  • await
  • awake
  • awaken
  • awakening
  • award
  • aware

Synonyms of 'awaken'

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