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[ verb ] cause to become awake or conscious
Examples "He was roused by the drunken men in the street" "Please wake me at 6 AM." Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)writes : Does numbness in the left_hand at night , which awakens the person , indicate brain_tumor ? (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He thought he saw - it awakened and , for a moment , interested him - that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash . (Francis Pollini, Night....)He looked_for the source of the noise that had awakened him * * h It was that prick Coughlin . |
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[ verb ] stop sleeping
Examples "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" Used in print (Mary Savage, Just for Tonight....)But she was caught in it , and she faced the terrible possibility that , if it were a dream , it was one from which she might never awaken . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make aware
Examples "They were awakened to the sad facts" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Should not everyone have been awakened to_it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard_to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports ? Related terms |
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