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The cat awakened at dawn. The cat was awakened at dawn by a mouse. As if all this weren't complicated enough, awake is also an adjective: Because of the cat, I too am now awake. For a detailed discussion of the history of these words, please see the The Grammatical History of 'Awaken' / 'Awoken' / 'Awakened'.
Wake up, people. What to Know. The verbs awake and awaken both mean "to rise from sleep." The most common inflections of awake are the past tense awoke ('she awoke suddenly') and the past participle awoken ('she was awoken suddenly').
AWAKENED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of awaken 2. to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping: . Learn more.
Definition of awaken verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Learn the meaning, usage, and history of the word awake, which can be a verb or an adjective. Find out the difference between awake and awaken, and see synonyms and related words.
More than 1 in 5 Americans say they’ve seen or experienced a ghost, and some self-isolating during the pandemic have claimed their own house spectres have awakened them, shaken their windows or even found long-lost items for them.
verb [ I or T ] literary uk / əˈweɪ.k ə n / us / əˈweɪ.k ə n /. to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping: They were awakened by the sound of gunfire. I awakened at dawn to find him beside me. Synonyms. awake literary. bestir yourself formal or humorous. rouse.
