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Definition of waken in English: wakenverb ˈweɪk(ə)nˈweɪkən no object she knew he would waken in an hour or so another term for wake (sense 1 of the verb) with object she wakened the child and dressed her figurative they combined to waken a forgotten and futile hope Example sentencesExamples - If I hadn't wakened and it had got up to the roof the whole house could have been burned.
- At 3.25 am the male occupant of a house in Greenpark Villa, Rostrevor was wakened by a man demanding money.
- The owner of one house was wakened in the early hours of Saturday morning by the flames and thankfully was able to raise the alarm and extinguish the fires.
- Summer is coming, the temperature is rising, and before you have even fully wakened, your body has already started to feel the heat and humidity.
- It has wakened memories and bought it all back and I think it would have been emotionally a bit distressing to have gone.
- With the light nights starting to return, toads across the area are wakening from hibernation to make the journey back to where they were born - to breed.
- As we move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
- At 3.30 am they were wakened by the sound of sledgehammers smashing open the double-locked front door.
- Rob Atkinson, head of the society's wildlife department, said the warmer weather had wakened snakes after a period of inactivity similar to hibernation, and some ventured into rural gardens.
- But I started to resent my Mom, expecting her to go away and expecting to be wakened with the sound of breaking glass.
- I felt, of course, as if she had sat by my bedside and wakened me in time for the anniversary just as I'd sat by her bedside a year ago, unable to bring her out of that last sleep.
- Next morning Lambie wakened in the same ‘canary-yellow Pringle jumper,’ but torn and with scratches on his face, victim of an apparent mugging.
- Sinn Féin wakens this morning under a tidal wave of outrage after the latest developments in the Garda investigation into money laundering.
- At 3am on Wednesday morning residents were wakened by the loud noises of thieves pulling the ATM out of the wall with a JCB stolen from a building site.
- It might not be the famine of biblical proportions which decimated the country in 1984 and which wakened a disbelieving world to the plight of the Ethiopians but unless something is done it is a disaster in the making.
- His alarm clock had failed, and he had not wakened until 9.10 am, ten minutes later than the time he was due to start work.
- Your fruits and flowers, your birds, your tree frogs wakening me every night, man I have to return just for that!
- Georgie quietly moans, stirs, then wakens with a gasp.
- Acute myocardial infarctions have a peak incidence in the first few hours after wakening, suggesting that they may be triggered by abrupt changes in psychological and behavioural status.
- In my forties, I go to sleep at night, and upon wakening, I find that a month has passed.
Synonyms wake, wake up, awake, awaken, waken up, rouse, stir, come to, come around wake, wake up, waken up, rouse, arouse, bring to, bring around
Origin Old English wæcnan 'be aroused', of Germanic origin; related to wake1. Rhymes awaken, bacon, betaken, forsaken, Jamaican, mistaken, partaken, shaken, taken Definition of waken in US English: wakenverbˈwākənˈweɪkən no object she knew he would waken in an hour or so literary term for wake (sense 1 of the verb) with object she wakened the child and dressed her figurative they combined to waken a forgotten and futile hope Example sentencesExamples - But I started to resent my Mom, expecting her to go away and expecting to be wakened with the sound of breaking glass.
- It might not be the famine of biblical proportions which decimated the country in 1984 and which wakened a disbelieving world to the plight of the Ethiopians but unless something is done it is a disaster in the making.
- The owner of one house was wakened in the early hours of Saturday morning by the flames and thankfully was able to raise the alarm and extinguish the fires.
- It has wakened memories and bought it all back and I think it would have been emotionally a bit distressing to have gone.
- Georgie quietly moans, stirs, then wakens with a gasp.
- In my forties, I go to sleep at night, and upon wakening, I find that a month has passed.
- His alarm clock had failed, and he had not wakened until 9.10 am, ten minutes later than the time he was due to start work.
- Sinn Féin wakens this morning under a tidal wave of outrage after the latest developments in the Garda investigation into money laundering.
- Next morning Lambie wakened in the same ‘canary-yellow Pringle jumper,’ but torn and with scratches on his face, victim of an apparent mugging.
- Summer is coming, the temperature is rising, and before you have even fully wakened, your body has already started to feel the heat and humidity.
- If I hadn't wakened and it had got up to the roof the whole house could have been burned.
- I felt, of course, as if she had sat by my bedside and wakened me in time for the anniversary just as I'd sat by her bedside a year ago, unable to bring her out of that last sleep.
- Acute myocardial infarctions have a peak incidence in the first few hours after wakening, suggesting that they may be triggered by abrupt changes in psychological and behavioural status.
- At 3.25 am the male occupant of a house in Greenpark Villa, Rostrevor was wakened by a man demanding money.
- With the light nights starting to return, toads across the area are wakening from hibernation to make the journey back to where they were born - to breed.
- At 3am on Wednesday morning residents were wakened by the loud noises of thieves pulling the ATM out of the wall with a JCB stolen from a building site.
- Your fruits and flowers, your birds, your tree frogs wakening me every night, man I have to return just for that!
- As we move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
- Rob Atkinson, head of the society's wildlife department, said the warmer weather had wakened snakes after a period of inactivity similar to hibernation, and some ventured into rural gardens.
- At 3.30 am they were wakened by the sound of sledgehammers smashing open the double-locked front door.
Synonyms wake, wake up, waken up, rouse, arouse, bring to, bring around wake, wake up, awake, awaken, waken up, rouse, stir, come to, come around
Origin Old English wæcnan ‘be aroused’, of Germanic origin; related to wake. |