reawaken
verb
re·awak·en
(ˌ)rē-ə-ˈwā-kən 
reawakened; reawakening; reawakens
: to awaken (someone or something) again
a photo that reawakened past memories
a movie that has reawakened interest in their story
Harry's temporarily stupefied brain seemed to reawaken.—
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
reawakening
noun
plural reawakenings
a spiritual reawakening
The Taylor demo … signals a reawakening of militant activism in New York.
—Sarah Ferguson
Sarah Ferguson
Examples of reawaken in a Sentence
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With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has loses hope until Aang (Gordon Cormier), a young airbender, reawakens to take his rightful place.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
But like a light in the darkness, hope springs forth when Aang (Cormier), a young Air Nomad — and the last of his kind — reawakens to take his rightful place as the next Avatar.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
With this flow of mass migration, anti-papist aggression reawakened racist rhetoric that circulated in the press.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
The series, created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, takes place decades after the events of the original movies, reawakening a rivalry between Macchio’s Daniel and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
The two years of panic and cocooning for many people, being laid off or doing Zoom meetings at home (without the need to travel), made the airline industry’s woes inescapable once the nation and the economy reawakened.
—Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Those robots are slowly reawakening and its up to the players to discover who is awakening them and why.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The new series — which again tells the story of the four nations of water, earth, fire and air as young Air Nomad Aang (played by Gordon Cormier) reawakens to take his place as the next Avatar and save the world after the fire nation attacks — seeks to rectify that.
—Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
While practicing his vows in the woods, Victor accidentally slips his wedding ring onto the finger of the titular Corpse Bride (Bonham Carter), reawakening her and transporting him into the Land of the Dead.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2023
Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
But like a light in the darkness, hope springs forth when Aang (Cormier), a young Air Nomad — and the last of his kind — reawakens to take his rightful place as the next Avatar.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
With this flow of mass migration, anti-papist aggression reawakened racist rhetoric that circulated in the press.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
The series, created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, takes place decades after the events of the original movies, reawakening a rivalry between Macchio’s Daniel and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
The two years of panic and cocooning for many people, being laid off or doing Zoom meetings at home (without the need to travel), made the airline industry’s woes inescapable once the nation and the economy reawakened.
—Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Those robots are slowly reawakening and its up to the players to discover who is awakening them and why.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The new series — which again tells the story of the four nations of water, earth, fire and air as young Air Nomad Aang (played by Gordon Cormier) reawakens to take his place as the next Avatar and save the world after the fire nation attacks — seeks to rectify that.
—Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
While practicing his vows in the woods, Victor accidentally slips his wedding ring onto the finger of the titular Corpse Bride (Bonham Carter), reawakening her and transporting him into the Land of the Dead.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2023
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“Reawaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reawaken. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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