Dictionary Entry

awakened

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/əˈweɪkənd/Used In Literature ↓

To cause to become awake.

In a Sentence

“She awakened him by ringing the bell.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. awakened

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Poetry examples for “awakened”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

"What sound awakened me, I wonder,
For now 'tis dumb."

He who stands now on death's triumphal steep,
Awakened out of life wherein we sleep
And dream of what he knows and sees, being dead.

HEY say when virtue slipped from her,
Awakened by her fall,
Sin seemed to work a miracle

And eyes in terror and terrible
For awakened souls.

People the waves have not awakened,
Spanking the boats at the harbor's head,

Rather a season of bliss unchangeable
Awakened from farm and church where it had lain
Safe under tile and thatch for ages since

The babe has awakened from sleep
And unto the gaze of its mother,

of Bacon. If he raise his eyes to the painted
windows, a different train of thought is awakened.
One group especially attracts and detains him. It

The thrall in the darkness plunged with his knife,
And the Earl awakened no more in this life.
But wakeful and weeping

On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awakened flowers,
All that ever was