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as in to awake
to cease to be asleep
guests at the B and B usually awaken to the smell of fresh pancakes
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Recent Examples of awaken
Along with his partner Malcolm (Simon Callow), the pair will attempt to travel back in time to awaken Cass to love again.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
One by one, the Addamses awaken, and then Isaac-Slurp does, too.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Their argument, the report says, started when he was awakened by Canizares on the phone outside the house.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Morrow is awakened ahead of schedule to discover that the captain is dead, another crew member is critically injured, and the engines have been sabotaged in a way that has turned the Maginot from a spaceship into a missile.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
One by one, the Addamses awaken, and then Isaac-Slurp does, too.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Their argument, the report says, started when he was awakened by Canizares on the phone outside the house.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Morrow is awakened ahead of schedule to discover that the captain is dead, another crew member is critically injured, and the engines have been sabotaged in a way that has turned the Maginot from a spaceship into a missile.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for awaken
Verb
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An opportunity to wake a dormant gift.—
Seth Wickersham,
The Atlantic,
8 Sep. 2025
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While the relationship didn't become romantic until later on, Umansky and Zingerman spent nearly every waking moment together in high school.—
Emy LaCroix,
People.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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There won’t be a day when Americans awake to news that vaccines are prohibited, or that the National Institutes of Health has been shuttered.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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After traversing nearby neighborhoods with William in their patrol car, officers found the boy's home and awoke his parents to the news.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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A little more than five years ago, Vice President Mike Pence gave a rousing speech in Alabama, setting a goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2024 and laying the political groundwork for the Artemis Program and all that has followed.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
5 Sep. 2025
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If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Awaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awaken. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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