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Definition: Awakened |
AwakenedAdjective1. Aroused or activated; "an awakened interest in ballet". 2. (somewhat formal) having been waked up; "the awakened baby began to cry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awakened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Antonym: unawakened (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penitence | Awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Awakened |
| English words defined with "awakened": awaken ♦ bluster ♦ Sleeping Beauty, sound. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "awakened": DREAMER ♦ Knocking ♦ PITY ♦ thundering herd problem. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "awakened": Awaken. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you'd just been rudely awakened after 30 years how would you feel? (Extreme Ghostbusters; writing credit: Brooks Wachtel) The sleeper has awakened! (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Why am I always awakened from my dreams? (The Love Parade; writing credit: Guy Bolton; Jules Chancel) I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | China Awakened (1917) The Spirit Awakened (1912) Necropolis Awakened (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Halftone image, copied from "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 51, published by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It shows one of Marblehead's gun crews returning the Confederate fire. The man at left, wearing a nightshirt and holding a sword, is the ship's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Richard W. Meade, Jr., who had been suddenly awakened when the enemy opened fire. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. |
Thomas Jefferson | But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It had stupefied all blessed impulses, and awakened into vivid life the whole brotherhood of bad ones. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What awakened him was, too good a bed. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | All the images it had awakened were false. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They awakened when the rushing wind was gone. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Fire, too, was awakened thus early to put the vital beat in him and get him off. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Is awakened by loud voices and sounds. (references) | |
Women may be awakened by night sweats or the need to go to the bathroom. (references) | ||
Instead, it keeps them in the lighter stages of sleep, from which they can be awakened easily. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Cameroon | The noise had awakened the gendarme, Angang, who emerged from his house with a rifle. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Recent events in that country have awakened the liveliest solicitude in the United States. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Another labor question has arisen which has awakened the most excited discussion. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Masses of Asia have awakened to strike off shackles of the past. |
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| "Awakened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 68.13% of the time. "Awakened" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 68.13% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.53% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.79% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 182 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "awakened": awakened conscience ♦ The Awakened Life. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "awakened": re-awakened. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
awakened | 10 |
awakened mind | 9 |
necropolis awakened | 3 |
awakened fantasy | 2 |
awakened list teacher | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "awakened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "' (Awaken, Awakening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valveutunut (enlightened, wide-awake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | réveillai, réveillés, réveillée, réveilla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | weckte (awakes), erweckte, erwacht (wakes up, woken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tergugah (aroused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 目敏い (easily awakened, sharp sighted), 目ざとい (easily awakened, sharp sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | めざとい (easily awakened, sharp sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 깨우" (aroused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | doostit, dooishtit (aroused, wakened up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awakeneday будить пробужденный. (various references) uppväckt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "awakened": reawakened, unawakened. (additional references) | |
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"Awakened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awakend, awakenen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "awakened" (pronounced uwā"kund) |
| 7 | u w ā" k u n d | reawakened. |
| 4 | -k u n d | beckoned, blackened, chickened, darkened, likened, millisecond, nanosecond, quickened, reckoned, second, sickened, slackened, thickened, weakened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, bargained, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, moistened, moribund, motioned, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, rationed, reasoned, rechristened, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, siphoned, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, widened, wizened, worsened. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-k-n-w" | |
-1 letter: wakened. | |
-2 letters: awaked, awaken, deewan, weaken, weaned. | |
-3 letters: akene, awake, awned, dawen, dewan, knead, kneed, naked, waked, waken, waned. | |
-4 letters: akee, anew, awed, awee, dank, dawk, dawn, dean, deke, dene, eked, kana, kane, keen, knee, knew, nada, need, wade, wake, wand, wane, weak, wean, weed, week, ween, weka, wend. | |
-5 letters: ana, and, ane, awa, awe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-k-n-w" | |
+2 letters: reawakened, unawakened. | |
+5 letters: awkwardnesses. | |
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