Definitions
To stop sleeping or cause someone to become alert.
Word origin
From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
Used in a sentence
“Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes”
“Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”
“For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Come out of sleep”6 letters
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