waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
wakened
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past participleof waken.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof waken.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
wakenverb (used with object)to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
Example Sentences
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“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Digital citizens and consumers must be wakened from their slumber, privacy advocates believe, and give thought to the security of their personal information, and how they are surrendering themselves to the power of their spies.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022
Uday Ibrahim Ali, a generator repairman, is routinely wakened for urgent fixes in Basra’s Zubair neighborhood.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
Once when flying to Oman, I was wakened in my window seat by the sheer brightness of the flares shooting up from the Persian Gulf oil rigs below.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
When his bowels were empty, Tyrion slipped on a bedrobe and roughed bis thin flaxen hair with his fingers, all the more to look as if he had wakened from sleep.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
