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AWAKENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(somewhat formal) having been waked up
Example:
the awakened baby began to cry
Classified under:
Similar:
awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Aroused or activated
Example:
an awakened interest in ballet
Classified under:
Similar:
aroused (aroused to action)
Antonym:
unawakened (not aroused or activated)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb awaken
Context examples:
I had awakened what he called ‘love’ within him—the love of a brute—a savage.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Next morning I was awakened by finding him at my bedside.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Instead of being awakened by a fire, you may fall into a deeper sleep.
(Fires, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
A condition in which a patient is in a state of deep sleep and cannot be awakened.
(Coma, NCI Dictionary)
Once he awakened, and in an opening in the circle, directly in front of him, he saw the she-wolf gazing at him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Time did something, her own exertions something more, and she resumed her attentions to Susan, and again awakened the same interest in them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Listen, Diana," said one of the absorbed students; "Franz and old Daniel are together in the night-time, and Franz is telling a dream from which he has awakened in terror—listen!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a curiosity so justly awakened, and feelings in every way so agitated, repose must be absolutely impossible.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
