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Past tense of awaken

regular verb

The past tense of awaken is awakened. The past participle is also awakened.

Forms of awaken

Base form (V1)awaken /əˈweɪkən/
Past tense (V2)awakened /əˈweɪkənd/
Past participle (V3)awakened /əˈweɪkənd/
Present participleawakening /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
Third person singularawakens

Awakened in a sentence

  • On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273
  • I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.From the entry pounce
  • The awakened baby began to cry.From the entry awakened
  • In the morning I am awakened by what I assume are ambulances but which are allegedly cicadas.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times. From the entry skeeter syndrome
  • I was met with the googly-eyed stare of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.2022, Wendy Willow, Silver Butterfly Wings. From the entry googly-eyed

Meaning of awaken

  1. verb To cause to become awake.
  2. verb To stop sleeping; awake.
  3. verb To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

Full definition of awaken

Questions about the past tense of awaken

What is the past tense of awaken?
The past tense of awaken is awakened.
What is the past participle of awaken?
The past participle of awaken is awakened.
Is awaken a regular or irregular verb?
Awaken is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awaken (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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