Definition of "awaken"

(transitive) To cause to become awake.  examples

(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.  examples

(transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.  quotations  examples

(theology) To call to a sense of sin.

(rare) past participle of awake  quotations

(transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.  examples

(intransitive, figurative) To become aware.  examples