Crossword clues for awoken
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]
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To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
--Tennyson.And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
--Matt. viii. 25. -
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
--Goldsmith.It way awake my bounty further.
--Shak.No sunny gleam awakes the trees.
--Keble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of awake English)
WordNet
v. stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: fall asleep]
adj. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [syn: awake(p)] [ant: asleep(p)]
not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert" [syn: alert, awake(p)]
(usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)]
See awake
Usage examples of "awoken".
She had awoken this morning feeling happy for the first time since the magistrate had questioned them.
She had awoken the next morning, a trifle sore, but happy beyond belief.
He had awoken from a vivid dream with his hands pressed over his face.
Harry, had seen what was sitting in it, he had felt a spasm of horror, which had awoken him.
Sirius, and for a moment was on the verge of telling Ron and Hermione about his scar hurting again, and about the dream that had awoken him.
As the Skraeling threat grew infinitely worse, he had quickly realized this was a sign that the Prophecy had awoken and now walked.
He muttered in his dreams, but Faraday could not catch his words, and the one night she had awoken him to save him from his nightmares and offer him a drink of water, he had screamed and struck the goblet from her hands.
Passes, since the planet had awoken from its long sleep in interstellar space, caught in a long orbit of this yellow star, the South had flown the same number of ships in the Great Harvest.
She had always awoken at cockcrow, ready for whatever the new day might hold.
The first few nights here, Jessie had awoken with nightmares, triggered by the quarantine and the strange environment.
She sidled toward the pair of scouts, a jungle goddess awoken from a slumber.
She was awoken in the middle of the night of August 2 and taken from the Temple to the Conciergerie, where she occupied a room about eleven feet by six feet off the main ground-floor corridor and directly next to the two gendarmes who were responsible for guarding her at all times.
Shivering, she bundled under the fur on her pallet and wondered what had awoken her.
Two days ago she had awoken with the glum realization that this was the last full day she would spend in her childhood home.
It was a heavenly way to wake up, one she had awoken to the night before and would be pleased to awaken to again and again she decided as Connall slid a leg between both of hers, allowing it to rub against the center of her.