Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to awaken
Participle: awakened
Gerund: awakening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | awaken |
| you | awaken |
| he;she;it | awakens |
| we | awaken |
| you | awaken |
| they | awaken |
Perfect
| I | have awakened |
| you | have awakened |
| he;she;it | has awakened |
| we | have awakened |
| you | have awakened |
| they | have awakened |
Past
| I | awakened |
| you | awakened |
| he;she;it | awakened |
| we | awakened |
| you | awakened |
| they | awakened |
Pluperfect
| I | had awakened |
| you | had awakened |
| he;she;it | had awakened |
| we | had awakened |
| you | had awakened |
| they | had awakened |
Future
| I | will awaken |
| you | will awaken |
| he;she;it | will awaken |
| we | will awaken |
| you | will awaken |
| they | will awaken |
Future Perfect
| I | will have awakened |
| you | will have awakened |
| he;she;it | will have awakened |
| we | will have awakened |
| you | will have awakened |
| they | will have awakened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | awaken |
| you | awaken |
| he;she;it | awaken |
| we | awaken |
| you | awaken |
| they | awaken |
Perfect
| I | have awakened |
| you | have awakened |
| he;she;it | have awakened |
| we | have awakened |
| you | have awakened |
| they | have awakened |
Imperfect
| I | awakened |
| you | awakened |
| he;she;it | awakened |
| we | awakened |
| you | awakened |
| they | awakened |
Pluperfect
| I | had awakened |
| you | had awakened |
| he;she;it | had awakened |
| we | had awakened |
| you | had awakened |
| they | had awakened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would awaken |
| you | would awaken |
| he;she;it | would awaken |
| we | would awaken |
| you | would awaken |
| they | would awaken |
Perfect
| I | would have awakened |
| you | would have awakened |
| he;she;it | would have awakened |
| we | would have awakened |
| you | would have awakened |
| they | would have awakened |
Imperative
| you | awaken |
| we | Let's awaken |
| you | awaken |
Verbs conjugated like 'awaken'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'awaken'
awake,
waken,
aken,
atake,
awarn,
faken,
naken,
reawaken,
rewaken,
wake,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- rouse from sleep
- call
- to become conscious after having slept
- abraid, arise, arouse, awake, rouse, stir, wake, wake up, waken
- rout out of bed
- roust
- intransitive, to stop sleeping
- wake
- to bring into action
- enliven
- wake from sleep or stupor
- arouse, wake
- to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure
- animate, call up, electrify, encourage, enflame, enkindle, enliven, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exhilarate, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, foment, galvanise, gin up, inflame, inspirit, intoxicate, invigorate, kindle, liven, liven up, pique, provoke, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir up, stoke, suscitate, thrill, vitalize, wake, warm the blood, whet, work up
- to cause somebody to stop sleeping
- arouse, awake, bring round, cry, knock up, rouse, roust, uprouse, wake, wake up, waken
- To bring into action (something previously dormant).
- enliven
- rouse
- call
- excite
- arouse, stimulate, animate, rekindle, ignite
Antonyms
- to cause somebody to stop sleeping
- anesthetize, belull, cradle, knock out, lull, put to sleep
- To place a baby somewhere to sleep
- put down
- excite
- calm, compose, appease, assuage
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian. See: Old English '
awæcnan'.
Sample Sentences
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It is the third morning. I am awakened out of my sleep by a dismal shriek from my wife, who demands to know whether there 's any danger. I rouse myself, and look out of bed. The water-jug is plunging and leaping like a lively dolphin; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an Immortal soul might be awakened.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] through the woods again, emerges in the light, clatters over frail arches, rumbles upon the heavy ground, shoots beneath a wooden bridge which intercepts the light for a second like a wink, suddenly awakens all the slumbering echoes in the main street of a large town, and dashes on haphazard, pell-mell, neck-or-nothing, down the middle of the road. There—with mechanics working at their trades, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] not entertainable for a moment. Even where a blazing fire shone through the uncurtained windows of some distant house, it had the air of being newly lighted, and of lacking warmth; and instead of awakening thoughts of a snug chamber, bright with faces that first saw the light round that same hearth, and ruddy with warm hangings, it came upon one suggestive of the smell of new mortar and damp walls.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of their lives they had grown to be quite beautiful. Their looks were very sad, and might have moved the sternest visitor to tears, but not to that kind of sorrow which the contemplation of the men awakens. One was a young girl; not twenty, as I recollect; whose snow-white room was hung with the work of some former prisoner, and upon whose downcast face the sun in all its splendour shone down through [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Miss Ophelia had several times tried to awaken her maternal fears about Eva; but to no avail.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Mammy heard the words, and flew to awaken the servants. The house was soon roused,—lights were seen, footsteps heard, anxious faces thronged the verandah, and looked tearfully through the glass doors; but St. Clare heard and said [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] he looked, she seemed to rise from the ground; her cheeks wore a paler hue,—her eyes had a deep, divine radiance, a golden halo seemed around her head,—and she vanished from his sight; and Tom was awakened by a loud knocking, and a sound of many voices at the gate.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the disheartened and discouraged. The poor, worn-down, brutalized creatures, at first, could scarce comprehend this; but, when it was continued week after week, and month after month, it began to awaken long-silent chords in their benumbed hearts. Gradually and imperceptibly the strange, silent, patient man, who was ready to bear every one's burden, and sought help from none,—who stood aside for [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] or probable schemes of escape, and dismissed them all, as hopeless and impracticable; but at this moment there flashed through her mind a plan, so simple and feasible in all its details, as to awaken an instant hope.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)