awaking

Verb

awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)

1. (intransitive, predicative) To become conscious after having slept.
   • Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
     Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
     And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
     The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1

   Synonyms:

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

   Antonyms:

   fall asleep, crash out, doze off, drift off, drop off, get off, go night-night, go to sleep, nod off, nod out

2. (predicative, transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
   • Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII

   Synonyms:

   bring round, cry, wake up, arouse, awaken, knock up, rouse, roust, uprouse, wake

   Antonyms:

   put to sleep

3. (predicative, transitive) To make aware of something.
4. (predicative, transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
5. (figuratively, predicative, transitive) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
6. (figuratively, intransitive, predicative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
   • The national spirit again awoke.1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

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