awakened

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈweɪkənd/
• Hyphenation: awak‧ened

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Verb

awakened

1. simple past and past participle of awaken
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

Adjective

awakened (comparative more awakened, superlative most awakened)

1. Having been woken up.

   the awakened baby began to cry

2. Aroused; alerted; activated; enlightened.

   an awakened interest in ballet

   • 2023 May 14, Heather Chen, Kocha Olarn, “Polls close in Thailand as opposition takes on kingdom’s conservative cliques”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Lined against them are more progressive and populist leaning opposition parties campaigning for democratic reforms that have a history of attracting […] a new generation of politically awakened young people.

Translations

having been woken up

• Finnish: herätetty (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἔξυπνος (éxupnos)

• Serbo-Croatian: probuđen m

aroused or activated

• Finnish: herätetty (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: geweckt, aufgeweckt (de), erweckt (de)