to reawaken
- verb
- /riːəˈweɪkən/
- And you slowly begin to reawaken yourself... ...with small movements.
- reawakened interest
In doing so, it reawakens us to selection as another way of constructing a self, a career, and uvra.
- In doing so, it reawakens us to selection as another way of constructing a self, a career, and uvra.
Examples
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In providing these, teachers may reawaken and strengthen a troubled child's own internal capacity to be trusting.
Academic text (1995) -
Here, students need to be prodded and inveigled to reawaken their literary imaginations.
Academic text (1992) -
Then something will reawaken interest.
Academic text (2009) -
He will, but it's up to you to reawaken his feelings.
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It just needs someone to reawaken it.
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And through practice and meditation, you can reawaken it, you can extend it, and it can become your way of living and moving in the world.
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His words seem to reawaken dormant maternal sensibilities.
Fiction book (1996) -
What seems to me to underline all the debates about history today is a reawakened sense of the fundamental temporality of human existence.
Academic text (1992) -
Being a Project ASTRO astronomer has reawakened Jacoby's appreciation for astronomy, and especially for Project ASTRO.
Academic text (2000) -
A trip to this magical Spanish city will reawaken feelings you thought were long dead.
Synonyms
Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again
Make someone remember something from the past
Start again after a pause, often a relationship or activity
To make a person conscious again after fainting
Make someone or something feel full of energy and less tired
To give new life and energy to something
Bring something back into use after it was forgotten
To make someone become aware of something for the first time
Make a feeling or interest strong again
To give new energy and interest to a person or thing
To bring back life and energy to a person or thing
To make an interest, feeling, or activity start again after it stopped
To make people and things alive or working again
To bring something dead back to life
Bring someone's attention back from daydreaming
To give new energy and enthusiasm to a person or thing
To give new life and energy to people or things
Make a feeling, interest, or memory strong again
Make something active again, for example the economy or your interest
Make a feeling, interest, or memory come back
Bring a feeling, idea or quality back into people
To make someone feel excited and ready to try new things
To make something feel new and alive again
Antonyms
How Awake
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reawaken is made of re- meaning 'again' and awaken meaning 'to wake up', so it literally means 'wake up again'. That's why reawaken is used when feelings, memories, or life come back after a time of sleep or quiet.