awaken

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Rhymes with -eɪkən

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

transitive To cause to become awake. Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes
intransitive To stop sleeping; awake. Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
figuratively, transitive To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
intransitive Of something previously dormant, to become active. I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
To call to a sense of sin.
participle, past, rare past participle of awake [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
figuratively, transitive To cause to become aware.
figuratively, intransitive To become aware. I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.