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reawakening

reawakening is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

reawakening (plural reawakenings)

  1. A second or subsequent awakening.
    • Our longings after immortality are sensibly experienced under the solemn views of dissolving nature, and its reawakening at the call of the angel, when this corruptible shall put on incorruptibility, and this mortal immortality, and death, to the sons and daughters of resignation shall be swallowed...1807, Rosewell Messinger, Sentiments on Resignation, P. F Collier and Son Company, page 224
    • In several of these patients, who previously had been treated by curetting and lactic acid, and who had been considered as cured, the injection of one or two milligrammes showed that this was not the case, and caused a reawakening of the disease.1891, Massachusetts Medical Society, The New England Journal of Medicine, Samuel Squiee Speigge, page 3

Forms of reawakening

Verb
alternative formre-awakening
Noun
pluralreawakenings

Questions about reawakening

What does reawakening mean?
Reawakening means a second or subsequent awakening.
What is reawakening the present participle and gerund of?
Reawakening is the present participle and gerund of reawaken.
What part of speech is reawakening?
Reawakening is a noun.
What is the plural of reawakening?
The plural of reawakening is reawakenings.

Words near reawakening in the dictionary

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

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