AWAKENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awakened mean? 

• AWAKENED (adjective)
  The adjective AWAKENED has 2 senses:

1. aroused or activated

2. (somewhat formal) having been waked up

  Familiarity information: AWAKENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWAKENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aroused or activated

Context example:

an awakened interest in ballet

Similar:

aroused (aroused to action)

Antonym:

unawakened (not aroused or activated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(somewhat formal) having been waked up

Context example:

the awakened baby began to cry

Similar:

awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)

 Context examples 

About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had been awakened by the alarm of fire.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My interest is already awakened in the case.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was awakened once from a faint by a wheeze close in his ear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But my mind could not go by it and leave it, as my body did; and it usually awakened a long train of meditations.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is as if I had passed through some long nightmare, and had just awakened to see the beautiful sunshine and feel the fresh air of the morning around me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"The experiment has succeeded. She is awakened at last."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)