Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked}; (Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25.
2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith.
It way awake my bounty further. --Shak.
No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.
Awaken \A*wak"en\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Awakened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awakening}.] [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, [=a]w[ae]cnian, v. i.; pref. on- + w[ae]cnan to wake. Cf. {Awake}, v. t.] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
[He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. --Cowper.
Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. --Tillotson.
Syn: To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth.
The teachers' victory seemed to indicate that Mexico's workers, whose paychecks are worth half what they were at the start of the economic crisis, were starting to awaken and learn to fight for themselves.
"We hope this goodwill gesture will awaken the conscience of Western nations to support the causes of the oppressed, especially the people of Palestine, who are subjected to daily killings and destruction," it said.
Controllers began sending commands to Magellan early Saturday to awaken it from a so-called deep-safe mode and put it in a state called random access memory control.
If babies beyond this age awaken several times and must be fed to go back to sleep, feeding is causing a sleep problem.
When he would awaken, Pekkanen peppered him with questions.
New government statistics have revived the debate over whether the evil inflation monster, which terrorized America during the 1970s, is starting to awaken after having slept for most of this decade.
From the deserts of Turkmenia to the glacier-laced peaks of Tadzhikistan, Soviet Central Asians are venting their anger over nationalist issues as they awaken from decades of complacency.
It might have taken a long time to awaken them, but investors are now alert to the possibilities opened up by the revival in M&A activity.
The book he had just completed was "The Grapes of Wrath," a novel that would awaken the social conscience of Americans in a way that "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Jungle" and few other works of fiction have.
With the laureates' agreement, young music students are given keys to enter their rooms and awaken them with song.
Symptoms include sudden, vivid reliving of the experience, nightmares that can make a person awaken screaming, and intense distress from events that symbolize or resemble the trauma.
He said Gorbachev's main task is to "awaken the people.
But only when the industrial average was down 102 points during the session did currency trading rooms awaken from their midsummer slumber to sell the dollar out of its accustomed range.
This week, his music was used to awaken the space shuttle Discovery's five astronauts.