awaken
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- v cause to become awake or conscious
- v stop sleeping
- v make aware
They were awakened to the sad facts
- I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television.
- And now she has this very moving film, which at the least must awaken our compassion and, perhaps, our donations.
- LUCAS: I put the Force into the movie in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people--more a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system.