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awaken

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Source Word

awaken

IPA(Pronunciation)

Verb

transitive intransitive figuratively form-of participle past rare

Japanese Meaning

眠っている状態から目覚めさせる、または目覚めさせることで起こすこと / 眠りから覚める、または目が覚めること / 比喩的に、長い間休んでいた活動や可能性を活発にさせること

What is this buttons?

A sudden knock on the door awakened him from his deep sleep.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

突然のドアのノックが彼を深い眠りから目覚めさせた。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To cause to become awake.

She awakened him by ringing the bell.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

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Sense（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

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Sense（4）

(theology) To call to a sense of sin.

Sense（5）

(rare) past participle of awake

[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...

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Sense（6）

(transitive) To cause to become aware.

awakens

（ present singular third-person ）

awakening

（ participle present ）

awakened

（ participle past ）

awakened

（ past ）

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