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awaken English

Meaning awaken meaning

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awaken Verb

— If you awaken somebody, they stop sleeping because of something you do. I was awakened a little after 11:00 by the phone. I get to sleep easily and awaken feeling good. — If something awakens your senses, a memory, a feeling, etc., it brings your attention to them. The smell of lemons awakened a memory from childhood.

awaken

— verb (= wake, rouse) cause to become awake or conscious He was roused by the drunken men in the street Please wake me at 6 AM. — verb (= wake up, wake) stop sleeping She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock — verb make aware They were awakened to the sad facts

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awaken English » English

wake up wake rouse arouse waken awake wake someone up revive come alive alert stimulate spring up originate inspire enliven enlighten cause arise yield warn urge summon up stir up stir snap out shake out of slumber shake sensitize rouse up revitalize revitalise remind regain consciousness raise provoke perk up open the eyes of open the eyes make aware knock up kindle get up encourage come to cause to wake call up bring up bring to light bring back to life bear

Topics awaken topics

What do people use awaken to talk about?
Daily life Sleep

Wake up

Conjugation awaken conjugation

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awaken · verb

Examples awaken examples

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Simple sentences

This book will awaken your imagination.
Those who look outward dream, but those who look inward awaken.
The queen was more frightened than words can describe, and could neither speak a word nor move from the place so as to awaken the King or the sailors.
Will he wake up by himself or should I awaken him at six?

Movie subtitles

You will not remember what I show you now, and yet I shall awaken memories of love and crime and death.
Awaken Herr Poelzig at once and take us somewhere where I can dress the lady's injury.
I know it's extremely cruel to awaken anyone at such an hour.
Sam! Calm down, you will awaken the whole house.
Christopher. Why didn't you awaken me?
I'd rather have you awaken her, Uncle.
Won't you awaken her?
Less, it would awaken.
If it moves in closer, you will awaken me immediately.
If only he would vanish when I awaken.
But emotionally, to her, his death is like a bad dream. from which she'll awaken and find him again.
Do you awaken often in the night?
You might awaken her, sir.
Awaken the senator.
Right before your eyes. Cesare will awaken from his death-like trance.
You were mean not to awaken me.
I've questioned my conscience through the deep hours of the night only to awaken in greater confusion.
I needed that scratch to awaken me.
I.tried not to awaken you.
Sam! Calm down, you will awaken the whole house. Flusky not want to see that.
Germany must awaken at long last!
But the war will awaken them.
Why didn't you awaken me?
At times the illusion of love may outlast the image of a dingy room but awaken we must.
To awaken like Byron and find yourself famous?
Just a minute, my good friend Cigolini has put the young lady's mind to sleep and Cigolini is not sure just when she is going to awaken.
I awaken sometimes screaming with nightmares. in which I see myself buried alive. waking to find myself entombed, without air.
Yes, but when you awaken in the morning. what do you remember of the night before?
He's had a deep sleep and he may awaken bright and alert.
Last night, You should have awaken me.
Words about cooperation with the police, Able to awaken the shame that he had hidden deep inside.
I have to awaken this lad every day from his sleep.
But they'll soon awaken.
It's a bad dream. We'd better awaken.

News and current affairs

Already, the Chinese are beginning to awaken from the infatuation with development that besieged them as they began to emerge from the commodity-starved Cultural Revolution.
It is a bitter shock to realize the fragility of our world of freedom, spirituality, and dignity and awaken again (as we will when the Cup winner is decided) in our less hospitable everyday world.
At another level, Iran's rise, reinforced by its suspected bid for nuclear weapons threatens to awaken historical hostilities, between Sunnis and Shiites and between Persians and Arabs.
So says the columnist Thomas Friedman, who chose that provocative title for his bestselling book to awaken people to the dramatic effects that technology is having on the world economy.
CAMBRIDGE - As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world's central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency.
It may be that many cancer patients harbor disseminated tumor cells, and not all of these cells are destined to re-awaken.
He gave astounding orders to soldiers departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China: they should awaken fear as had the Huns of yore.
These stories awaken our fears of being overtaken by others on the economic ladder.
Then they awaken to the reality that not much has really changed, and that in a few weeks or months the problems will reappear in a seemingly even more intractable form.
At some point, America will awaken from its geopolitical slumber; there are already signs that it has opened one eye.

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