English Dictionary

awaken

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈweɪkən/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 比喩的用法 活用形 分詞 過去 稀用

(transitive) To cause to become awake. / (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake. / (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

日本語の意味

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

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

突然のドアのノックが彼を深い眠りから目覚めさせた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause to become awake.

She awakened him by ringing the bell.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

意味（3）

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

Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

意味（4）

(theology) To call to a sense of sin.

意味（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...

意味（6）

(transitive) To cause to become aware.

awakens （ present singular third-person ）

awakening （ participle present ）

awakened （ participle past ）

awakened （ past ）