Waken

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈweɪkÉ™n/
• Rhymes: -eɪkÉ™n

Origin

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

Full definition of waken

Verb

1. (transitive) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
2. (intransitive) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
• John Dryden (1631-1700)Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
• 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody Chapter 2, She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Related terms

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