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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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