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waken

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wak⋅en

  [wey-kuhn]
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–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.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME waknen, OE wæcnan; c. ON vakna; akin to wake 1 ; see -en 1

Related forms:
wak⋅en⋅er, noun
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wak·en   (wā'kən)   
v.   wak·ened, wak·en·ing, wak·ens

v.   tr.

  1. To rouse from sleep; awake: The noise wakened me.

  2. To rouse from a quiescent or inactive state; stir.

v.   intr.
To become awake; wake up: I plan to waken at six o'clock tomorrow. See Usage Note at wake1.

[Middle English wakenen, from Old English wæcnan; see weg- in Indo-European roots.]
wak'en·er 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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