Hypertext Webster Gateway: "awaken"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked};
(Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The
form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS.
[=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i.
(imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.]
1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
--Tennyson.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii.
25.

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death,
stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new
life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the
dormant faculties.

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
--Goldsmith.

It way awake my bounty further. --Shak.

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Awaken \A*wak"en\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Awakened}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Awakening}.] [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS.
[=a]w[ae]cnan, [=a]w[ae]cnian, v. i.; pref. on- + w[ae]cnan
to wake. Cf. {Awake}, v. t.]
To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

[He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st.
--Cowper.

Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. --Tillotson.

Syn: To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

awaken
v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
[syn: {wake}, {waken}, {rouse}, {wake up}, {arouse}]
[ant: {cause to sleep}]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: {wake up}, {awake}, {arouse}, {wake}, {come alive},
{waken}] [ant: {fall asleep}]
3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"

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