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 →

2) To make a feeling, memory or interest start (The trip awakened her love of nature). tree →

3) To make someone realise something (awaken someone to a danger). tree →

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 →
• Bears awaken from hibernation when the weather warms. tree →
• The smell of pancakes awakened me. tree →
• The museum trip awakened his interest in fossils. tree →
• The film awakened people to the danger of plastic in the sea. tree →
• She had a rude awakening when she saw her test score. tree →
• Do not awaken the baby! tree →
• She was awakened in the morning by a great shout. tree →

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?'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «awaken» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.