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WAKEN

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Example:

She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

Synonyms:

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "waken" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

"Waken" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

wakening (the act of waking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "waken" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "waken"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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 Context examples: 

He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter—by any movement he can make.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Once again during the night I was wakened by Mina.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, “Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun and moon.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I would fall asleep in the act of carrying food to my mouth and waken in torment to find the act yet uncompleted.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The rest had long been up and had already breakfasted and increased the pile of firewood by about half as much again when I was wakened by a bustle and the sound of voices.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was in vain I looked about me; in vain I saw the decent furniture and tall proportions of my room in the square; in vain that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains and the design of the mahogany frame; something still kept insisting that I was not where I was, that I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The voice of Mrs. Fairfax, speaking to a servant in the hall, wakened you: and how curiously you smiled to and at yourself, Janet!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Madam Mina still sleep and sleep; and though I did have hunger and appeased it, I could not waken her—even for food.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)