REAWAKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reawaken mean? 

• REAWAKEN (verb)
  The verb REAWAKEN has 1 sense:

1. awaken once again

  Familiarity information: REAWAKEN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAWAKEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reawaken    ... he / she / it reawakens   
Past simple: reawakened   
Past participle: reawakened   
-ing form: reawakening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Awaken once again

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "reawaken" is one way to...):

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken (cause to become awake or conscious)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

My suspicions had been thoroughly reawakened on finding Black Dog at the Spy-glass, and I watched the cook narrowly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The researchers believe that stimulation affects the spinal cord’s underlying circuitry, reawakening networks that have been silent since the injury.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

Intentional recall of a past memory is more than simply reawakening it; it actually leads us to forget other competing experiences that interfere with retrieval of the memory we seek.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

The first signs of reawakening came when he discovered more than languid interest in the daily paper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers, rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)