awakens

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.
   • Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes1973, New Birth, “Wildflower”, in It's Been A Long Time

   Synonyms:

   knock up, uprouse

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
   • Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

   Synonyms:

   awake, stir, abraid, arise, arouse, get up, rise, rouse, wake, wake up

   Antonyms:

   fall asleep

3. (figuratively, transitive) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
   • Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   Synonyms:

   animate, energize, arouse, beghast, leaven, bright, brighten, cheer, enliven, enthuse

4. (intransitive) Of something previously dormant, to become active.
   • I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.1984, 20:05 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC
5. To call to a sense of sin.
6. (figuratively, transitive) To cause to become aware.

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