different between awaken vs stimulate

English

Etymology

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.

   She awakened him by ringing the bell.

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

   Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

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

   Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
5. (rare) past participle of awake
   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

Usage notes

This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (and also in awakens and awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.

For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.

Synonyms

• (transitive, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimul?tus, perfect passive participle of stimul? (“goad on”), from Latin stimulus (“goad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?mj?le?t/

Verb

stimulate (third-person singular simple present stimulates, present participle stimulating, simple past and past participle stimulated)

1. To encourage into action.

2. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

Synonyms

• (encourage): encourage, induce, incite, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite
• (arouse): animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (arouse): de-energize, sedate, stifle

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• multiseat, mutilates, ultimates

Esperanto

Adverb

stimulate

1. present adverbial passive participle of stimuli

Latin

Verb

stimul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of stimul?