waken
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 5
/ˈweɪkən/
Definition of waken
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To wake or rouse from sleep.
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verb
- (transitive)To wake or rouse from sleep.
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(intransitive)To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
“Early, Turnus wakening with the light.”
“She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.”
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Etymology
From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.
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