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snooze
English
Etymology
Unknown. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snu?z/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand, UK, Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sn??z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Verb
snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)
- (intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
- (transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
- 2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)
- It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock […]
- 2007, Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming (page 359)
- Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
- 2011, Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies (page 40)
- To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
- 2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)
Translations
Noun
snooze (plural snoozes)
- A brief period of sleep; a nap.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep
- (informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (informal) Something boring.
Derived terms
- snooze button
Translations
See also
- catnap
- nap
- shuteye
- slumber
Anagrams
- ozones
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awaken
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)
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- She awakened him by ringing the bell.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
- Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
- We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (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...
- 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia
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
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- what awakens the mangekyou sharingan
- what awakened the speaker in the beginning of the raven
- what wakes katniss in the morning
- what awakened itachi's sharingan
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