Thesaurus:awaken
English edit
Verb edit
(transitive)
Sense: to cause somebody to stop sleeping edit
Synonyms edit
- arouse [⇒ thesaurus]
- awake [⇒ thesaurus]
- awaken
- bring round
- cry
- knock up (British)
- rouse
- roust
- uprouse
- wake [⇒ thesaurus]
- wake up
- waken
Antonyms edit
- anesthetize
- belull
- cradle
- knock out
- lull
- put down (idiomatic)
- put to sleep
Hyponyms edit
- pipe up (rare)
Various edit
See also edit
- Thesaurus:wake (intransitive verb)
- Thesaurus:awake (adjective)
- Thesaurus:wakefulness (noun)
Further reading edit
- “682. activity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “awaken” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.