Waken
['weɪk(ə)n] or ['wekən]
Definition
(v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
(v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
(v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Edited by Aaron
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Wake.
v. a. Wake.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- It is an old dream, but it always comes back on windy nights, till I am thankful to waken, sitting straight and stiff up in bed with my terror. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It shall waken your nature, fill your mind with music; it shall pass like a skilful hand over your heart, and make its strings sound. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The bed was draped in white; and there, beneath the drooping angel-figure, lay a little sleeping form,--sleeping never to waken! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Maria, he said, and shook the girl's shoulder to waken her. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He heard her breathing steadily and regularly now and he knew she was asleep and he lay awake and very still not wanting to waken her by moving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He learnt that she had fallen into a deep sleep, from which she would waken, either to recovery and life, or to bid them farewell, and die. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Now you'll waken your mamma, just after she's gone to sleep so quietly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- No need to ponder the cause or the course of that sigh; I knew it was wakened by beauty; I knew it pursued Ginevra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All had gone well through the house; her mother had only wakened once. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As dawn approached, the setting stars and breaking day dimmed the creation of fancy; the wakened song of birds hushed her whispers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She looked like one who is suddenly wakened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The wanderer, decoyed into the enchanted castle, heard rising, outside, the spell-wakened tempeSt. What, in all this, was I to think of Madame Beck? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That music stirs my soul; it wakens all my life; it makes my heart beat--not with its temperate daily pulse, but with a new, thrilling vigour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Pansy