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# awaken

verb (awaken, awakens, awakened, awakening); noun awakening

«awaken» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or story-like). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m1)
2. To make a feeling, memory or interest start (The trip awakened her love of nature). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m2)
3. To make someone realise something (awaken someone to a danger). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#m3)

### In the lessons

Mostly in stories, poems and formal writing; in everyday talk people say «wake up». Science: animals awaken from hibernation in spring. «A rude awakening» means suddenly finding out something unpleasant.

### Examples

- The princess awakened after a hundred years of sleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x1)
- Bears awaken from hibernation when the weather warms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x2)
- The smell of pancakes awakened me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x3)
- The museum trip awakened his interest in fossils. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x4)
- The film awakened people to the danger of plastic in the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x5)
- She had a rude awakening when she saw her test score. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x6)
- Do not awaken the baby! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x7)
- She was awakened in the morning by a great shout. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: awakened. Similar verbs: wake (woke, woken), awake (awoke, awoken). «Awaken» sounds more formal or literary than «wake up». «Awake» can also be an adjective: I am awake.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Song of Songs it means to rouse someone, especially love, before the right time.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the Song as a picture of God's love for Israel. The warning not to "awaken love until it please" is understood as a call to wait for God's time and not to force the redemption.

### Examples

- 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?' (Writings SNG.8.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/awaken/#x1)
- Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth. (Writings SNG.8.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/awaken/#x2)
- 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.' (Writings SNG.2.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/awaken/#x3)

### Note

Regular verb: awakened. Similar verbs: wake (woke, woken), awake (awoke, awoken). «Awaken» sounds more formal or literary than «wake up». «Awake» can also be an adjective: I am awake.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «awaken» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awaken/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«awaken» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/awaken.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «awaken» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/awaken/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«awaken» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/awaken.html) on Mova free.