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All waken synonyms

wak·en
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verb waken

  • awaken — To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
  • wake — to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
  • arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
  • get up — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
  • arise — If a situation or problem arises, it begins to exist or people start to become aware of it.
  • awake — Someone who is awake is not sleeping.
  • bestir — to cause (oneself, or, rarely, another person) to become active; rouse
  • call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
  • nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
  • prod — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
  • rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
  • shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
  • stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • come to — When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
  • open one's eyes — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • rise and shine — get out of bed
  • roll out — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
  • turn out — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • kindle — (of animals, especially rabbits) to bear (young); produce (offspring).
  • challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
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