To awaken someone is to wake them up. You might awaken your roommate accidentally by practicing your tap dance routine in the kitchen.
To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Verb
stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
Verb
cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
Verb
make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
of Awake
v. t.
To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Awaken
[He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st.
Their consciences are thoroughly awakened.
To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Usage Examples
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhen you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
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