intransitive verb. To wake up.

intransitive verb. To become aware of something.

intransitive verb. To cause to wake up.

intransitive verb. To cause (someone) to become aware; alert or enlighten.

intransitive verb. To stir up or produce (a memory or feeling, for example).

To become awake; cease to sleep; be roused from sleep or a state resembling sleep: as, to awaken early.

To come into being or action as if from sleep: as, hope awakened in his breast.

To rouse from sleep or a state resembling sleep; cause to revive from a state of inaction.

To call into being or action.

[Awaken is chiefly used in figurative or transferred applications, awake being preferred in the sense of arousing from actual sleep.]

verb. To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

verb. To cause to become awake.

verb. To cause to become conscious.

verb. To stop sleeping.

verb. stop sleeping

verb. cause to become awake or conscious

verb. make aware

"Hearing you awaken from the dead, your cat runs screeching."

fall asleep  

affect  change state  impress  move  strike  

Bacon  Jamaican  Macon  aken  bacon  

advancement  awareness  catastrophe  clarity  commotion  

alert  annoy  arouse  arouse  awake  

awakened  awakening  awakens