reawaken

verb

re·​awak·​en (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈwā-kən 

reawakened; reawakening; reawakens

transitive + intransitive

: 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

reawakening noun

plural reawakenings

a spiritual reawakening

The Taylor demo … signals a reawakening of militant activism in New York.

—Sarah Ferguson

Examples of reawaken in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, a grown-up Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) faces new and familiar frights after her equally goth daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), opens a portal to the Netherworld and reawakens everyone's favorite pinstriped ghost. —Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

This year’s Wimbledon, however, reawakened me to the abiding, fundamental connection between writers and tennis players. —Thomas Swick september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025

But triggers like a viral infection or stress hormones can rupture the plaques, reawakening the bacteria. —Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

When spring arrives, the ice sublimates and summertime winds reawaken the movement of the sand. —Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1708, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reawaken

• godforsaken
• overtaken
• undertaken
• awaken
• betaken
• forsaken
• mistaken
• partaken
• retaken
• unshaken
• shaken
• taken