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# awaken

«awaken» in Mova's school dictionary: **To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (awaken, awakens, awakened, awakening); noun awakening

### meaning for a pupil

1) To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or story-like). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m1)

2) To make a feeling, memory or interest start (The trip awakened her love of nature). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m2)

3) To make someone realise something (awaken someone to a danger). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Mostly in stories, poems and formal writing; in everyday talk people say «wake up». Science: animals awaken from hibernation in spring. «A rude awakening» means suddenly finding out something unpleasant.

### examples

- The princess awakened after a hundred years of sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x1)
- Bears awaken from hibernation when the weather warms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x2)
- The smell of pancakes awakened me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x3)
- The museum trip awakened his interest in fossils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x4)
- The film awakened people to the danger of plastic in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x5)
- She had a rude awakening when she saw her test score. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x6)
- Do not awaken the baby! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x7)
- She was awakened in the morning by a great shout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: awakened. Similar verbs: wake (woke, woken), awake (awoke, awoken). «Awaken» sounds more formal or literary than «wake up». «Awake» can also be an adjective: I am awake.

### In the corpora

- ['I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.122/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «awaken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.