单词 | rewake |
释义 | rewakev. Chiefly poetic in modern use. transitive and intransitive. To wake again from sleep. Frequently figurative. Cf. reawaken v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)] > again rewaken1542 rewake1697 1697 J. Glanvill Panegyrick to King 12 Those Jarrs asleep, Thou shalt repose awhile, Till new Alarms sound to re-wake Thy Toil. 1743 A. Hill Fanciad i. 9 Fright those rash Frogs, that leap, disdainful o'er: Rampant, and rais'd, re-wake his dreadful Roar. a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1999) IV. 89 Then our silken-robed minstrels..Shall rewake the young slumbering blood of the land. 1885 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto i. ii ‘I beg your pardon’ cried the farmer, rewaking to hospitable thoughts. 1921 J. Drinkwater New Poems i. 12 And standing so you are the birth Of all the themes that you rewake. 1960 A. Waley tr. Murasaki Shikibu Tale of Genji iii. iii. 431 This garden was fenced with hedges of the white deutzia flower, the orange tree ‘whose scent rewakes forgotten love’. 1981 PMLA 96 251/1 The sibylline leaves of his verse..may ascend like seeds into renewed life when spring rewakes them. 2007 D. Morley Cambr. Introd. Creative Writing 140 Precise language wakes or rewakes the world and replicates it more immediately than a film ever could. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1697 |
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