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reawakened

reawakened is the simple past and past participle of reawaken.

Meaning of reawaken

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

Adjective

reawakened (comparative more reawakened, superlative most reawakened)

  1. Being awakened again.
    • But when she was with Natasha she was not vexed with her and did not reproach her. The reawakened power of life that had seized Natasha was so evidently irrepressible and unexpected by her, that in her presence Princess Mary felt that she had no right to reproach her even in her heart.1828, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Humphrey Milford, page 415
    • The land which had given birth to the institution cherished it long; and there its efforts were continually reawakened even in its decline.1830, George Payne Rainsford James, The History of Chivalry, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, page 328

Forms of reawakened

comparativemore reawakened
superlativemost reawakened

Questions about reawakened

What does reawakened mean?
Reawakened means being awakened again.
What is reawakened the simple past and past participle of?
Reawakened is the simple past and past participle of reawaken.
What part of speech is reawakened?
Reawakened is an adjective.

Words near reawakened in the dictionary

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

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