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WAKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waken mean? 

WAKEN (verb)
  The verb WAKEN has 2 senses:

1. cause to become awake or consciousplay

2. stop sleepingplay

  Familiarity information: WAKEN used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WAKEN (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they waken  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it wakens  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: wakened  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: wakened  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: wakening  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "waken"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

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


Sense 2

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

"Waken" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

wakening (the act of waking)


 Context examples 


I had wakened the glow: his features beamed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, sir, it wakened me from my sleep, so it is hard to judge.

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

I was sorry you spoke. And now I am glad—so glad—if it wakens these thoughts in you!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At length she became uneasy, and wakened the boy, and asked: Do you know where my husband is?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I was wakened by Lucy trying to get out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Who?” demanded those who had been really asleep, and who had wakened to they knew not what.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside; poor Harry, what a wakening!

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

I was wakened—indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the door-post—by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood: “Block house, ahoy!” it cried. “Here's the doctor.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)



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