awaken vs awake vs wake vs waken
Definitions
verb
- make aware
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Definitions
adjective
- mentally perceptive and responsive
- not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
verb
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Definitions
verb
- make aware of
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- be awake, be alert, be there
noun
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Definitions
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
