to waken from sleep
11waken — awake, awaken, wake, waken 1. forms. Although the history of these words, and in particular of the various forms of past tense and past participle, is highly complex (see the OED entry), in current use awake and wake can be paired as strong verbs …
12waken — verb (wakened; wakening) Etymology: Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnian; akin to Old Norse vakna to awaken, Old English wæccan to watch Date: before 12th century intransitive verb awake often used with up transitive verb to rouse… …
13wake, awake, awaken, waken — Our language has several verbs to express waking from sleep and waking someone from sleep. Awake awaked and awake awoke are correct, of course, but somewhat formal: I awoke him. Awaken awakened awakened is even more formal than awake: I awakened… …
14List of quotes from Shakespeare in Brave New World — The list of quotes from Shakespeare in Brave New World refers to the large number of quotations in the 1932 dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World , which are derived from the plays and other works of William Shakespeare.List of… …
15Hymn From a Watermelon Pavilion — is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium . It was first published in 1917, so it is in the public domain. [Buttel, p. 206.] The dweller in the dark cabin may be understood to be the specifically poetical dreamer, like the… …
16wake — wake1 waker, n. /wayk/, v., waked or woke, waked or woken, waking, n. v.i. 1. to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often fol. by up). 2. to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken: to wake from one s daydreams …
17stir — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. move, budge, circulate; agitate, incite, arouse; animate, stimulate, provoke. See agitation, motion, excitement. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. agitation, tumult, bustle; see excitement . v. 1. [To… …
18wake — I. v. n. 1. Watch, be awake, continue awake. 2. Awake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep, cease from sleep. 3. Revel, carouse, feast, sit up late for festive purposes. 4. Be excited, be roused up, be active. II. v. a. 1. Awaken, waken,… …
19wake — I. verb (woke; also waked; woken or waked; also woke; waking) Etymology: partly from Middle English waken (past wook, past participle waken), from Old English wacan to awake (past wōc, past participle wacen); partly from Middle English wakien,… …
20wake — I. /weɪk / (say wayk) verb (woke or, Chiefly US, waked, woken or, Chiefly US, waken, waking) –verb (i) 1. Also, wake up. to become roused from sleep; awake. 2. to be or continue awake. 3. to remain awake for …
