Crossword clues for woken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of wake English)
WordNet
See wake
n. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: aftermath, backwash]
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: Wake Island]
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: backwash]
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: viewing]
v. be awake, be alert, be there [ant: sleep]
stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, come alive, waken] [ant: fall asleep]
arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, ignite, heat, fire up]
make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"
cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep]
Usage examples of "woken".
But it laid a thin gauze between the immediacy of the idea of magic, the anxiety it had woken in her, and her normal self.
She bolted upright, pulse racing, confused, wondering where she was, why she was still wearing her clothes, what had woken her.
But it still made the promise woken from that kiss seem of so much less consequence than she hoped it was.
He walked well, I thought, his good straight hocks encouraging lengthy strides, and he also seemed to have woken up a good deal, now that the excitement was at hand.
I find myself so truly woken up by what I have had to do that I cannot return to sleep.
She had woken from her laudanum sleep, but the opiate was still in her blood and she lay without moving.
He had woken up to see a chair moving in a glimmer of moonlight three feet off the floor and floating out through the window.
And I think I would have continued aimlessly walking, noting, talking and watching if I had not one night woken up beside Katharine and heard in the room and in my mind a silence so profound that it is beyond words to describe because I cannot liken it to anything on the earth.
After this, I felt very sleepy, having been woken so early in the morning, and would have gone to bed except that I had no bed to go to.
I decide next is that the day upon which I have woken, whatever day it may be, is full of sunshine.
Angavar High King, has woken and these two Lords of Gramarye use us as pawns in their war games, to while away the tedious years of Erith.
Morragan for some centuriesbut the Crown Prince had already woken and departed forty years since.
How long she had slept she could not tell, but she had woken in another place, another interlude or ventricle of Gothallamor.
Rightly, they thought never to be woken in Erith, and in fact there was no way to waken them, for the Coirnead, the horn which might have done so, was sundered when sildron was unmade, and may never be sounded again.
I was weeping, and did not quite know why, but it was Darak who had woken me.