waken

Etymology

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪkən/
• Rhymes: -eɪkən

Verb

waken (third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened)

1. (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
2. (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
   • John Dryden (1631-1700)

     Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Anagrams

• Wanek, Wanke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːkə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːkən

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch waken, from Old Dutch wakon, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną (“to be awake”).

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Etymology

From Old Dutch wacon, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną.

Verb

wāken

1. (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
2. (intransitive) to not be or fall asleep, to stay awake
3. (intransitive) to awaken, to wake up
4. (transitive) to guard

Further reading

• “waken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “waken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Etymology

From Old English wacan.

Verb

waken (third-person singular simple present {{{stem}}}eth, present participle wook, simple past and past participle waken)

1. to wake, cease from sleep, to be awake
2. to remain awake on watch especially over a corpse