Awoken

Awoken
Awake A*wake", v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked}; (Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. [1913 Webster]

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25. [1913 Webster]

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. [1913 Webster]

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]

It way awake my bounty further. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble. [1913 Webster]


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  • awoken — pp. of AWAKE (Cf. awake) (v.); also see AWAKEN (Cf. awaken). The tendency has been to restrict the strong p.p. (awoken) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • AWOKEN — past part. of AWAKE. * * * past participle of ↑awake, 1 * * * awoken [awoken] [əˈwəʊkən] ; [əˈwoʊkən] past part. of ↑awake …   Useful english dictionary

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  • awoken — past participle of awake …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • awoken — /euh woh keuhn/, v. a pp. of awake. * * * …   Universalium

  • awoken — a|wok|en [əˈwəukən US əˈwou ] the past participle of ↑awake …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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