to waken
5
3.0
- verb
- /ˈweɪkən/
:
despertar
- The loud alarm clock wakened me from a deep sleep this morning.
- wakened in the morning
- wakened from sleep
- wakened at night
By the time she wake up, I have a song or two.
- By the time she wake up, I have a song or two.
- I don't know besides to be waking up and just doing me.
- So it's like there has to be a correlation between waking up and crushing it.
- Hoover is Oh, so I've been waking up early.
- OK guys, so it's a couple hours later Cove woke up from a nap.
- I'm sleeping my senior year and I get startled woken up.
- Yes, yes, it's, it's a wake up. You know, it's it's something it's something that I wake up to often,
- He was not wakened again by Alder, but had a bad dream of his own.
- It could be another bird, but they'll, they'll go harass the the colonies of these dwarf Mongoose to wake them up so that the Mongoose will come out.
- I have for some reason, and I can't tell you why, I have woken up in sheer panic that Becca's falling out of bed.
- And when she wakes up, she has something called facial blindness, which is a actual thing.
- So if Helga bushing says that oh, and she didn't wake up, he's talking when some stranger picks up Maddie from her bed, right?
- So she already has that much on her plate and she has a husband who is waking her up in the middle of the night, waking her up fully to mess with her.
Examples
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In the morning, I am wakened by the noise of the crows.
Fiction book (1992) -
I must have fallen asleep and wakened when I heard the voices of the family.
Fiction book (2001) -
I mean, can you imagine being wakened in the night by a dream?
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Now that you have wakened me, we might as well be comfortable.
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Both eyes were still closed; not even the sun had wakened him.
Fiction book (1993) -
Because of you, I was wakened; because of you, I listened, having nothing else to do.
Fiction book (1993) -
You wakened me from an eternity of darkness.
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Saturday morning, I was wakened before eight o'clock by a call from Jack.
Fiction book (1999) -
Usually, Rachel would already be up and about, but Mary hadn't wakened her.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the night, I'd been wakened and summoned to the Headmaster's office.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
To stop sleeping or make someone else stop sleeping
∞
1.0
To stop sleeping or make someone else stop sleeping
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1.0
To stop sleeping or make someone stop sleeping
73
1.8
To stop sleeping or make someone else wake up
28
3.4
To wake someone up and make them alert after sleep
9
3.5
Make someone wake up or feel more energetic
Antonyms
How Awake
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Waken comes from an old English word wacan meaning 'to wake' or 'rise from sleep'. It is the same root as wake and awake, so to waken someone is simply to 'make them stop sleeping'.