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AWAKENED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of awaken 2. to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping: . Learn more.
Wake up, people. What to Know. The verbs awake and awaken both mean "to rise from sleep." The most common inflections of awake are the past tense awoke ('she awoke suddenly') and the past participle awoken ('she was awoken suddenly').
The cat awakens at dawn. Things get trickier in the past tense. Our modern verb awake is the result of the long-ago melding of two older verbs. These verbs were very similar, but one had regular past tense forms (like play: played, has played) and the other had irregular past tense forms (like take: took, has taken ).
Definition of awaken verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
We are being rudely awakened to a sense of unity in matters political, economic, scientific, and even cultural. From the Cambridge English Corpus You awaken one morning on your amply outfitted but very small boat to find that a shipwrecked sailor has climbed aboard.
verb [ I or T ] literary uk / əˈweɪ.k ə n / us / əˈweɪ.k ə n /. to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping: They were awakened by the sound of gunfire. I awakened at dawn to find him beside me. Synonyms. awake literary. bestir yourself formal or humorous. rouse.
More than 1 in 5 Americans say they’ve seen or experienced a ghost, and some self-isolating during the pandemic have claimed their own house spectres have awakened them, shaken their windows or even found long-lost items for them.
