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woken
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?wo?k?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??k?n/
- Rhymes: -??k?n
Verb
woken
- past participle of wake
Anagrams
- Keown, knowe
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??k??n]
Noun
woken
- genitive plural of wokno
Synonyms
- woknow
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wakien, waken
Etymology
From Old English w?cian; equivalent to woke +? -en. Compare weyken and Old English w?can.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w??k?n/
- (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA(key): /?w??k?n/
Verb
woken (rare)
- To become weakened or tired; to weaken.
- To calm; to lose one's bravery.
- To add water to; to make watery or soft.
Conjugation
References
- “w?ken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-27.
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awake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??we?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Adjective
awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)
- Not asleep; conscious.
- Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake; see also Thesaurus:awake
- Antonyms: asleep, unconscious; see also Thesaurus:asleep
- (figuratively, by extension) Alert, aware.
- Synonyms: wary, woke; see also Thesaurus:vigilant
- Antonyms: heedless, oblivious
- 1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"[1]:
- And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.
Derived terms
- half-awake
- unawake
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English ?wacan and ?wacian, equivalent to a- +? wake.
Verb
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- Synonyms: awaken, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake
- Antonyms: fall asleep; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
- Antonym: put to sleep
- 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...
- (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
- The national spirit again awoke.
- 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
Derived terms
- awaker
Usage notes
For many speakers, this verb is commonly conflated with awaken (and, in such cases, lends some conjugational elements to it). See the usage notes at awaken for more details.
Translations
See also
- awake to
- awaken
- wake
- wake up
- woke
References
- “awake”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- awake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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