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reawaken

reawaken verb: to wake after an extended period of sleep.

Verb

reawaken (third-person singular simple present reawakens, present participle reawakening, simple past and past participle reawakened)

  1. (intransitive) To wake after an extended period of sleep.
  2. (transitive) To reactivate or reanimate.
    • Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2026

Forms of reawaken

third-person singular presentreawakens
present participlereawakening
past participlereawakened
pastreawakened

Origin of reawaken

From re- + awaken.

Questions about reawaken

What does reawaken mean?
Reawaken means to wake after an extended period of sleep.
What part of speech is reawaken?
Reawaken is a verb.
What is the past tense of reawaken?
The past tense of reawaken is reawakened.

Words near reawaken in the dictionary

  1. reawaited
  2. reawaiting
  3. reawaits
  4. reawake
  5. reawaked
  6. reawaken
  7. reawakened
  8. reawakening
  9. reawakenings
  10. reawakenment
  11. reawakenments

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