waken

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈweɪkən/

Definition of waken

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To wake or rouse from sleep.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To wake or rouse from sleep.
  2. (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.

Anagrams of waken

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