awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
(verb) cause to become awake or conscious; “He was roused by the drunken men in the street”; “Please wake me at 6 AM.”
awaken
(verb) make aware; “They were awakened to the sad facts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)
(transitive) To cause to become awake.
(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
(transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
(theology) To call to a sense of sin.
(rare) past participle of awake
This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (and also in awakens and awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.
For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.
• (transitive, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also awaken
• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also enliven
• (stop sleeping): fall asleep
Source: Wiktionary
A*wak"en, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Awakened (; p. pr. & vb. n. Awakening.] Etym: [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. awæcnan, awæcnian, v. i.; pref. on- + wæcnan to wake. Cf. Awake, v. t.]
Definition: To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.
Syn.
– To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
