waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
wakener
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a word derived from
waken.
Example Sentences
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It acts as a stimulus or wakener to the old ideas sleeping beneath the surface.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
