waken
Use Waken in a sentence
kən verb (used with object)
1.
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
2.
to rouse from inactivity; stir up or excite; arouse; awaken: to waken the reader's interest.
verb (used without object)
3.
to wake, or become awake; awaken.
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| —vb | |
| to rouse or be roused from sleep or some other inactive state | |
| 'wakener | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
waken
"to become awake," O.E. wæcnan, wæcnian "to rise, spring," from the same source as wake (v.). Fig. sense was in O.E. Trans. sense of "to arouse (someone or something) from sleep" is recorded from c.1200.
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Example sentences
She trod softly, so as not to waken him, and went through into the room beyond.
If you waken a sleeper and he tells you his dream, he s reporting from memory.
The animals take many minutes to rouse but waken periodically to feed and excrete.
She wants to find the wild chimpanzees before they waken and climb down from their nests.
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