waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
has wakened
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present perfectof waken (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"I am glad, maybe at the last minute, the PM has wakened up to the serious threat that this poses to the union," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2020
"This has wakened them from their notion of infallibility," says a Bush adviser.
From Time Magazine Archive
"She has wakened from a pleasant dream," said Uncle George, with the same subdued voice.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
He falls asleep—and it seems to him that the King has wakened and gone without him.
From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston
A sleeping nation has wakened to the realization that there is money to be made out of chopping its prose into bits.
From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
