Awaken

Definition: Awaken

Awaken

Verb

1. Cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM.".

2. Stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock".

3. Make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "awaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Awaken \A*wak"en\, transitive verb & intransitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Awakened; Awakening.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Awaken

Attention

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Information

Verb: tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit.

Be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, get wind of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand.

Memory

Remind; suggest; (inform ); prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize.

Crosswords: Awaken

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. (Tora! Tora! Tora!; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Larry Forrester)

I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams (DOCTOR MY EYES; performing artist: Jackson Browne)

When We Dead Awaken (1970)

Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Awaken Healing Energy Through Tao (reference)

• Awaken the Diet Within: From Overweight to Looking Great-If I Can Do It, So Can You (reference)

• Awaken the Giant Within [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Awaken the Leader Within (reference)

• Awaken the Olympian Within: Stories from America's Greatest Olympic Motivators (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ananda Yoga to Awaken the Chakras (reference)

• Awaken Healing Light: Guided Sitting Meditation (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Awaken the Guardian (reference)

• Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart (reference)

• Morning Light-Songs to Awaken (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Awaken Your Glands and Nerves and Regain the Vigor of Youth in 24 Hours!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Margaret Sanger : awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world! : Harrisburg Hospital Nurses Day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

On the wall was nailed, an indication sufficient to awaken the suspicion of a police officer, an old map of France under the republic.

Beauty expressed by the artist cannot awaken in us an emotion which is kinetic or a sensation which is purely physical.

He shook his head as though to awaken himself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If a child does not sense the bladder filling and awaken to urinate, then wetting will occur. (references)

When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales � dreams. (references)

At first, a person with Fuchs' dystrophy will awaken with blurred vision that will gradually clear during the day. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "awaken": re-awaken.

Albanian

pp e foljes awake, i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبه (excite, exhilarate, jog, remind, stimulate, urge, waken, whet), ‏أيقظ (arouse, awake, awoken, call, raise, rattle, rouse, rout, wake, wake up, waken), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събуждам (arouse, awake, call up, challenge, elevate, get up, rouse, shake up, wake, wake up, waken), пробуждам (rouse, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

Chinese 

憬 , �"��' (Awakened, Awakening). (various references)

Czech

vzbudit se (awake), probudit se (awake, wake, wake up, waken), příè.min. od awake. (various references)

Danish

vække (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Dutch

wekken (arouse, wake, wake up), wakker maken (arouse, wake, wake up), opwekken (abet, arouse, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge, wake, wake up). (various references)

Esperanto

veki (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Faeroese

vekja (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Farsi 

بیدارکردن (Arouse, Awake, Raise, Waken), بیدارشدن (Awake, Waken). (various references)

Finnish

herättää (arouse, call forth, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

French

réveiller (awake). (various references)

German

aufwecken (arouse, rouse, to wake up, wake, wake up, waken), weckend (awaking, rousing), wecken (arouse, awake, awaked, awoken, bring back, call forth, create, excite, kindle, prompt, reveille, revive, rouse, spark, to awake, wake, wake up, waken, waking-up time), erwecken (arouse, bring back, inspire, raise, rouse, wake, wake up), erwecke. (various references)

Greek 

ξυπνώ (awake, get up, knock up, rouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Guarani

apáyta (I shall awaken). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעור (astir, awake, wake up). (various references)

Hungarian

felébreszt (arouse, awake, to arouse, to call up, to pique, to raise, to rouse, to wake, to waken, wake, waken), felébred (awake, awoke, to awake, to awaken, to rouse, to wake, to wake up, wake up, waken), ébred (to wake, wake, woke, woken). (various references)

Indonesian

terbangun (be constructed, become aware), membanguni (repeatedly build). (various references)

Irish

múscail (arouse, awake, wake), dúisigh (arouse, awake, wake). (various references)

Italian

risvegliare (arouse, revive, rouse, stir up, wake, wake up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寝覚め . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねざめ. (various references)

Korean 

깨우십시�" (Arouse). (various references)

Malay

membanguni (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Manx

doostey (arouse, freshen, raise, start, stir up, switch on). (various references)

Maya

ahs (to awaken someone). (various references)

Norwegian

vegge (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Papiamen

spierta (arouse, wake, wake up). (various references)

Pig Latin

awakenay

Portuguese

despertar (accelerate, arouse, awake, awakening, quicken, rouse, to wake, wake, wake up, waken), acordar (arouse, awake, rouse, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

Romanian

trezi (arouse, awake, call, disabuse, evoke, hold up, hound on, induce, inspire with, knock up, prompt, raise, rip up, rouse, sharpen, wake, wake up), se trezi (awake, flatten, rattle up, stale, stir, wake, wake up, waken), scula (arouse, call, get up, instrument, raise, rise, rout out, wake), participiu trecut de la awake, excita (agitate, excite, irritate, pander to, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir up, tickle, whet), deştepta (arouse, awake, call, call up, enkindle, enliven, evoke, knock up, raise, reveille, rouse, wake). (various references)

Russian 

будить (arouse, awake, awakens, awakes, call, raise, rouse, roused, wake, wake up, woke, woken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

probuditi (arouse, evoke, rouse, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

Spanish

despertarse (arouse, awake, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), despertar (arousal, arouse, awake, awakening, draw, get up, knock up, revive, rouse, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

Sranan

wiki (arouse, wake, wake up, week). (various references)

Swedish

väcka (arouse, awake, bring up, call, evoke, give, introduce, kindle, rouse, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

Thai

กระตุ้น (arouse, awake, egg on, energize, fuel, goad, goad into, goad on, lash, make, move, push, quicken, spur). (various references)

Turkish

uyanmak (awake, revive, rouse, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up, waken), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, call, disabuse, disabuse of, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), ikaz etmek (forewarn, warn), gözü açılmak (awake), farkına varmak (awake, awake to, be sensible of, become aware of, discern, get wise to, notice, realize, recognize, take notice, take stock of, wake to, waken). (various references)

Turkmen 

oяarmak (call). (various references)

Ukrainian

будити (arouse, awake, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), просипатися (arouse), прокидатися (awake, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), пробуджувати (awake, evoke). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thấy rõ (conscious), thức giấc, thức dậy; thức, nhận thức ra, không ngủ $awaken to$ nhận ra. (various references)

exsuscitem, suscita, suscitabimus, suscitabis, suscitabit, suscitabo, suscitabunt, suscitabuntur, suscitandas, suscitans, suscitant, suscitare, suscitarent, suscitarer, suscitares, suscitaret, suscitat, suscitata, suscitate, suscitatione, suscitatis, suscitatur, suscitatus, suscitaverit, suscitaverunt, suscitavi, suscitavit, suscitavitque, suscitem, suscitemus, suscites, suscitet, suscitetis, suscito. (various references)

aweccan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "awaken": awakened, awakener, awakeners, awakening, awakens. (additional references)

Words ending with "awaken": reawaken. (additional references)

Words containing "awaken": reawakened, reawakening, reawakens, unawakened. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Awaken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aake, agalevn, Anacreon, Anakena, Anakreon, asake, atween, awaka, awakend, awaker, awaknen, Awale, Awaleh, awane, awave, aweek, awike, Awka, Awraka, Mwakenya, Paiakan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: awake, waken.

-2 letters: anew, kana, kane, knew, wake, wane, weak, wean, weka.

-3 letters: ana, ane, awa, awe, awn, kae, kea, ken, nae, naw, new, wae, wan, wen.

-4 letters: aa, ae, an, aw, en, ka, na, ne, we.

+1 letter: awakens.

+2 letters: awakened, awakener, reawaken, unawaked.

+3 letters: awakeners, awakening, reawakens, reawaking, wapentake.

+4 letters: reawakened, unawakened, wapentakes.

+5 letters: awkwardness, cakewalking, lawbreaking, racewalking, reawakening.