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Antonyms for awoken

Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-woh-kuh n
Phonetic Transcription : əˈwoʊ kən

Definition of awoken

Origin :
  • past participle of awake (v.); also see awaken. The tendency has been to restrict the strong past participle (awoken) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete.
  • verb become alert or cause to rise from sleep
  • verb become or make aware
Example sentences :
  • The next morning we were awoken by hearing a great noise in the village.
  • Extract from : « Charley Laurel » by W. H. G. Kingston
  • From this petrified state, he was awoken by a hand touching his shoulder.
  • Extract from : « Siddhartha » by Herman Hesse
  • Now, he was nothing but Siddhartha, the awoken one, nothing else was left.
  • Extract from : « Siddhartha » by Herman Hesse
  • He was awoken by the voice of Oliver Marston loudly calling him.
  • Extract from : « Antony Waymouth » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • The moment when he had just awoken from sleep was always a horrible one for him.
  • Extract from : « Here and Hereafter » by Barry Pain
  • Since you've awoken to notorosity, I have been studdyin' out your family pedigree.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 » by Various
  • At the end of that hour she returned—only to find that her husband had not yet awoken, but was still lying motionless.
  • Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The sun was pouring through the barred window when he was awoken by the entrance of a gigantic figure bearing food and drink.
  • Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • My courage rises, and I fall into a deep sleep, but to be awoken in half an hour by a tremendous noise overhead.
  • Extract from : « Legends » by August Strindberg
  • Christendom had awoken to new life after the great and terrible New Year's Eve of 999.
  • Extract from : « Historical Miniatures » by August Strindberg

Synonyms for awoken

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