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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"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room," one resident told BBC Scotland.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
“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
In the dream from which he’d wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
