awaken

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.Examples: "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"Synonyms: knock uptransitive

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.Examples: "Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face."Synonyms: awakeintransitive

3. (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.Examples: "Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!"; "We hope to awaken your interest in our programme."; "On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things."Synonyms: animatefigurativelytransitive

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.

5. (rare) past participle of awakeExamples: "[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..."form-ofparticiplepastrare

6. (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.figurativelytransitive