3 definitions found
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 1.6 [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: {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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