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as in to awake
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 awaken
For the next three days, our hero silently sits on the bloodstained floor beside her bed, trying to accept that their baby is lost and his wife may never awaken.
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Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
But the American people have been awakened to the poisonous influence the progressive left has and continues to have on American society.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Beans often have a very tough seed coat that prevents water from entering, and only when this is broken—by something such as wildfire heat, the acid of a bird’s stomach, a scalpel or sandpaper—can water enter and the seed awaken.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
As the moon and Venus clash, another’s shady behavior awakens your jealous side.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 1 May 2025
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Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
But the American people have been awakened to the poisonous influence the progressive left has and continues to have on American society.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Beans often have a very tough seed coat that prevents water from entering, and only when this is broken—by something such as wildfire heat, the acid of a bird’s stomach, a scalpel or sandpaper—can water enter and the seed awaken.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
As the moon and Venus clash, another’s shady behavior awakens your jealous side.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for awaken
Verb
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Richardson woke him up, saying Leslie was overdosing.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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The Long Gray Line and character At West Point, cadets wake before the sun comes up, shoes shined, uniforms squared away.—
Brianna Keilar,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
Verb
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The infant was sleeping between her mother, Lillian Burton, and stepdad when the parents awoke at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to the disturbance in their bed in NYCHA’s Queensbridge North Houses in Long Island City.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
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Helberg awoke on Thursday to discover the massive bow of the NCL Salten resting a stone's throw from his home in Byneset, Norway, near Trondheim.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2025
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Rose rouses him though, with concerns of their baby arriving prematurely.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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That’s a thorny line that all actors of a certain level of success need to question, as the difference between rousing Hollywood entertainment and glorifying nationalistic propaganda proves vanishing thin.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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“Awaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awaken. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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