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third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened
(transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep. examples
(intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. quotations examples
Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915