waken

Definition

To wake or rouse from sleep.

Etymology

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

Example Sentences

• "Early, Turnus wakening with the light."
• "She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."

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