waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
have wakened
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present perfectof waken.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 would have wakened up in my own bed.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2014
O we have wakened here and had our birth, And that's the end of earth; And we have toiled and smiled and kept the light, And that's the end of night.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 14 years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wolves had been sleeping all day—they could not have wakened the bear.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
She seemed to have wakened from a protracted stupor and discovered the joy of being alive.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
