awaken vs awake vs wake vs waken
Definitions
verb
- make aware
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Definitions
adjective
- mentally perceptive and responsive
- not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
verb
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Definitions
verb
- make aware of
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- be awake, be alert, be there
noun
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Definitions
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.