awaken
/əˈweɪkən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.35 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face."
- "For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential."
- "Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!"
- "We hope to awaken your interest in our programme."
- "He tries to awaken in them self-respect and reverence for their own spiritual culture."
Etymology
From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *weǵ-, awakenen, awæcnan