waken en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈweɪkən/
Etymology
From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.
Meanings
- (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
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(intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wakens | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| wakened | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| wakened | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| wakening | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
eo veki (rouse from sleep) · ga múscail (rouse from sleep)