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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-wey-kuh n
Phonetic Transcription : əˈweɪ kən



Definition of re-awaken

Origin :
  • also reawaken, 1810, from re- + awaken. Related: Reawakened; reawakening.
  • As in regenerate : verb breathe new life into
  • As in renew : verb start over; refurbish
  • As in reproduce : verb make more copies of
  • As in re-create : verb renew
  • As in reanimate : verb revive
  • As in reawaken : verb revive
  • As in recondition : verb renew
  • As in resurrect : verb revive
  • As in revitalize : verb revive
  • As in revivify : verb revive
Example sentences :
  • No cause came to her with force enough to re-awaken her enthusiasms.
  • Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
  • Are there any minds in which they do not re-awaken some sorrow, or some trouble?
  • Extract from : « The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain » by Charles Dickens
  • Alas, centuries will pass before they re-awaken from their present stupor.
  • Extract from : « The Carlovingian Coins » by Eugne Sue
  • The mighty fist of the dead praefect had mayhap laid the creature low; in any case it were not safe to re-awaken dormant memories.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • It is the glad ministry of His grace to re-awaken silent chords, to restore broken harps, to “put new songs” in our mouths.
  • Extract from : « My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year » by John Henry Jowett
  • At first, when he had passed a few weeks there, the memory of Rome used to re-awaken in his thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 » by Various
  • A ray of Consciousness is passed over that impression and you re-read it, you re-awaken the record.
  • Extract from : « Assimilative Memory » by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • In her case, the first business was to re-awaken her within, and her own words have related something of the process.
  • Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
  • Might they not some day re-awaken as this present wound healed and ceased to smart?
  • Extract from : « The Mayor of Troy » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • Enough, my friends; I would not re-awaken the memory of those days of misery and death.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Gerard » by Arthur Conan Doyle

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