awakened

[ UK /ɐwˈe‍ɪkənd/ ]
[ US /əˈweɪkənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (somewhat formal) having been waked up
    the awakened baby began to cry
  2. aroused or activated
    an awakened interest in ballet
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How To Use awakened In A Sentence

  • I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
  • This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • Or the first man awakened to a sense of the divine. Christianity Today
  • Do you think the newly awakened lionhearted people are going to be frightened by an official hat? An Enemy of the People
  • the sound awakened them
  • At about midnight they were suddenly awakened from their sleep by a loud noise and the earth trembling, which caused the whole building to shake about them. The Gods of Asgard
  • They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.
  • Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • What was it that had awakened her — what in awakening had changed the inpouring human consciousness into this flood of fury? The Metal Monster
  • The light flashes on and I am rudely awakened. Times, Sunday Times
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