awaken

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/əˈweɪkən/

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Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes
1973, New Birth, “Wildflower”, in It's Been A Long Time
For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.
2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9
I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
1984, 20:05 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC
He tries to awaken in them self-respect and reverence for their own spiritual culture.
1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 446
On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.
1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273

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