awakened 1 of 2

adjective

as in roused

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verb

past tense of awaken
1
as in woke
to cause to stop sleeping be quiet or you'll awaken the kids

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2
as in awoke
to cease to be asleep guests at the B and B usually awaken to the smell of fresh pancakes

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Recent Examples of awakened
Adjective
There’s a flash of light, and a wind blows over the stunned, awakened audience. — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026 Angine desperately returns to the store, again and again, to get her fix from Malaise, her face reddening from blood just below the surface, a canvas of her awakened desire. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
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But this morning an air of foreboding awakened me, and my little fishing barometer was already descending past the 29 mark. — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026 As the 1986 return approached, people who remembered that earlier appearance likely told their children and grandchildren about being awakened before dawn and taken outside to see a huge, ghostly, gleaming object in the sky. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Life’s one-handedness puzzle The duo’s research has both given chemists fundamental new tools that are widely used in their daily work and awakened interest in the chemistry of life’s origins, the committee said. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 That day in August, the woman was awakened by Ross, who was enraged by a photo she was tagged in on Instagram, according to Ross’ arrest report. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 Like Harvey, Williams was asleep when she was awakened by a phone call from her husband, who was out of town. — Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Judy Heumann’s story also awakened a different understanding in Heder herself. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026 The film starts in Paris but Taro’s story begins in her native Leipzig in 1932, where Gerta Pohorylle, as she is then known, is a young woman whose political conscience is awakened by the rise of fascism. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026 This case has awakened debates about infanticide laws, which provide legal defenses only to mothers who kill their infant. — Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for awakened
  1. awake
  2. woke
  3. awoke
  4. wakeful
  5. roused
  6. sleepless
Adjective
  • Ernest couldn’t sleep, but lay awake on his mattress in the basement, figuring.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The first, obvious to anyone else who was half-awake, was that the Kravis Studio was not nearly big enough for the performance it was required to contain.
    — Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of awake
Verb
  • The flames were so large that traffic cameras detected the fire, and neighbors woke to the home being consumed.
    — Jason Rantala, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • This is what publishers get for selling out to woke novelists!
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of woke
Verb
  • The Heat awoke Tuesday as the NBA’s only 0-4 team and thoroughly bewildered about how a group that fashioned itself a contender could continue to perform so poorly.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Reaves was held scoreless during the first quarter, but awoke for 15 points in the second.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of awoke
Adjective
  • These ripples are associated with spikes of activity in the prefrontal cortex, and scientists only observe them during periods of sleep or quiet, wakeful rest.
    — Sean Mccabe, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • In a previous university blog post, Majumdar compared this finding to the brain flushing out byproducts that build up during active, wakeful moments, allowing for a more restful night’s sleep.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of wakeful
Verb
  • Peter roused again but had grown more certain since his last utterance.
    — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
  • After Zverev had established a two-sets-to-love lead, Shelton roused himself and the crowd by taking the third set.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of roused
Adjective
  • Karuna moved into Boston Children’s Hospital’s pediatric ICU, where Amisha and I spent countless sleepless nights.
    — Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Who hasn’t watched hours of Friends reruns with a bag of Cape Cod chips on a sleepless night?
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026
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