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awoken

 [uh-woh-kuhn]   Origin

a·wo·ken

   [uh-woh-kuhn]
verb
a past participle of awake.
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a·wake

   [uh-weyk] verb, a·woke or a·waked, a·woke or a·waked or a·wo·ken, a·wak·ing, adjective
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to wake up; rouse from sleep: I awoke at six with a feeling of dread.
2.
to rouse to action; become active: His flagging interest awoke.
3.
to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant (often followed by to): She awoke to the realities of life.
adjective
4.
waking; not sleeping.
5.
vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English awaken, Old English awacen, past participle of awæcnan; see a1, waken

Related forms
a·wake·a·ble, adjective
half-a·wake, adjective
re·a·wake, verb, -woke or -waked, -wak·ing.
un·a·wake, adjective
un·a·wake·a·ble, adjective
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un·a·waked, adjective
un·a·wak·ing, adjective
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awoken
pp. of awake (v.); also see awaken. The tendency has been to restrict the strong p.p. (awoken) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete.
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awake
M.E. awaken, from pp. of O.E. awæcnian (see awaken).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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