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Waken   /wˈeɪkən/   Listen
Waken

verb
(past & past part. wakened; pres. part. wakening)
1.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."  Antonym: cause to sleep.
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up.  Antonym: fall asleep.



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"Waken" Quotes from Famous Books



... know, he flew away. Twice he came back from the window, wanting to kiss his mother, but he feared the delight of it might waken her, so at last he played her a lovely kiss on his pipe, and then he flew back ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... eyes overbrimmed with tears, and thrice and again she smote her hand on her gracious breast. 'This is not time for tears,' cries Juno, daughter of Saturn: 'hasten and snatch thy brother, if it may be, from his death; or do thou waken war, and make [159-191]the treaty abortive. I encourage thee to dare.' With such urgence she left her, doubting and dismayed, ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil

... sweet his speaking sounded, so wise his words did seem, That moveless all men sat there, as in a happy dream We stir not lest we waken; but there his speech had end, And slowly down the hall-floor, and outward did he wend; And none would cast him a question or follow on his ways, For they knew that the gift was Odin's, a sword for ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

... she cried, bestowing a resounding kiss on her cheek. "I feared that the she-dragon would waken and call you back; but you are here, and you have brought—let me see. Oh, you are Patty, are you not? And Briar? You are my friends for ever now. Oh, we shall have fun! The wagonette is here, and the dogcart; there are a party of us, and ...
— Girls of the Forest • L. T. Meade

... and memories of Aberdeen ower muckle for me, sae I came up to London here, and ye ken the rest about me. It was because of being with my bairn that I wouldna agree to live in the hospital here like the rest of the nurses, and whan I gang hame noo to my little garret, he will waken up out of his saft sleep, rosy and fresh, and hold up his bonnie mou', sae like his father's, for ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes


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