waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
rewaken
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a word derived from
waken.
Example Sentences
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But oh! deem not it was with the thought Of your heart to regain, or the past to rewaken.
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
I took a route well known, and went up towards the palatial and royal Haute-Ville; thence the music I heard certainly floated; it was hushed now, but it might rewaken.
From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair
These were words to rewaken all the happiest purposes of my expedition, and they recovered me from the nerveless, sinking state into which my exhaustion had cast me, as if by a miracle.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
