Awaken vs. Awake: What's the Difference?
Awaken and Awake Definitions
Awaken
To wake up
I awakened at 6:00 AM.
Awake
To rouse from sleep; waken
"It was almost dark when the sound of crickets awoke her" (Jonathan Safran Foer).
Awaken
To become aware of something
He finally awakened to the fact that he was wrong.
Awake
To make aware of
The report awoke him to the possibilities of a compromise.
Awaken
To cause to wake up
A barking dog awakened me during the night.
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Awake
To stir up (memories, for example).
Awaken
To cause (someone) to become aware; alert or enlighten
The news awakened her to the truth.
Awake
To wake up.
Awaken
To stir up or produce (a memory or feeling, for example)
Her new job awakened in her a sense of responsibility. See Usage Note at wake1.
Awake
To become alert.
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Awaken
(transitive) To cause to become awake.
She awakened him by ringing the bell.
Awake
To become aware or cognizant
"Web publishers have awaked to the idea that they need to offer not only material appealing to children, but a little supervision as well" (Laurie J. Flynn). See Usage Note at wake1.
Awaken
(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
Awake
Completely conscious; not in a state of sleep.
Awaken
To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
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Awake
Fully alert; attuned.
Awaken
(theology) To call to a sense of sin.
Awake
Not asleep; conscious.
Awaken
(rare) awake
Awake
Alert, aware.
They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
Awaken
To cause to become aware.
Awake
(intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
Awaken
To become aware.
I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.
Awake
(transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
Put to sleep
Awaken
To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
[He] is dispatchedAlready to awaken whom thou nam'st.
Their consciences are thoroughly awakened.
Awake
(transitive) To make aware of something.
Awaken
Cause to become awake or conscious;
He was roused by the drunken men in the street
Please wake me at 6 AM.
Awake
(transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
Awaken
Stop sleeping;
She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
Awake
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
Awaken
Make aware;
They were awakened to the sad facts
Awake
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
Awake
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
Awake
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
It way awake my bounty further.
No sunny gleam awakes the trees.
Awake
To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
The national spirit again awoke.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Awake
Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Before whom awake I stood.
She still beheld,Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep.
He was awake to the danger.
Awake
Stop sleeping;
She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
Awake
Not in a state of sleep; completely conscious;
Lay awake thinking about his new job
Still not fully awake
Awake
Not unconscious; especially having become conscious;
The patient is now awake and alert
Awake
(usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive;
Alert to the problems
Alive to what is going on
Awake to the dangers of her situation
Was now awake to the reality of his predicament
