awaken

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause to become awake. transitive
    — Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes
  2. To stop sleeping; awake. intransitive
    — Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
  3. To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. figuratively,transitive
    — Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
  4. Of something previously dormant, to become active. intransitive
    — I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
  5. To call to a sense of sin.
  6. past participle of awake form-of,participle,past,rare
    — [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
  7. To cause to become aware. figuratively,transitive
  8. To become aware. figuratively,intransitive
    — I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.

词形变化

awakens present,singular,third-person awakening participle,present awakened participle,past awakened past

词源

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
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