waken
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- v cause to become awake or conscious
- v stop sleeping
- Hispanics have overtaken African Americans as the country's largest minority, the swing vote to woo, the sleeping giant to waken.
- The general's statement, announced Radio Baghdad, "will neither shake the leaves of Iraqi palm trees nor waken a sleeping girl.
- After he left the apartment, Nussbaum tried several times to waken Lisa, but abandoned the effort because she thought Steinberg could use supernatural healing powers to revive Lisa .