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Webster 1913 Edition


Waken

Wak′en

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. pr.
Wakened
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Wakening
.]
[OE.
waknen
, AS.
wæcnan
; akin to Goth. ga
waknan
. See
Wake
,
Verb.
I.
]
To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early, Turnus
wakening
with the light.
Dryden.

Wak′en

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
“Go, waken Eve.”
Milton.
2.
To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Then Homer’s and Tyrtaeus' martial muse
Wakened
the world.
Roscommon.
Venus now wakes, and
wakens
love.
Milton.
They introduce
Their sacred song, and
waken
raptures high.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Waken

WAKEN

,
Verb.
I.
wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early Turnus wakning with the light.

WAKEN

,
Verb.
T.
wakn.
1.
To excite or rouse from sleep.
Go, waken Eve.
2.
To excite to action or motion.
Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world.
3.
To excite; to produce; to rouse into action.
They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

Definition 2024


waken

waken

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
  2. (intransitive) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
    • 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.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

waken

  1. (intransitive) to stay awake
  2. (intransitive) to watch, to be alert
Inflection
Inflection of waken (weak)
infinitive waken
past singular waakte
past participle gewaakt
infinitive waken
gerund waken n
verbal noun
present tense past tense
1st person singular waak waakte
2nd person sing. (jij) waakt waakte
2nd person sing. (u) waakt waakte
2nd person sing. (gij) waakt waakte
3rd person singular waakt waakte
plural waken waakten
subjunctive sing.1 wake waakte
subjunctive plur.1 waken waakten
imperative sing. waak
imperative plur.1 waakt
participles wakend gewaakt
1) Archaic.
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Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Noun

waken

  1. Plural form of wake

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English wacan.

Verb

waken (past wook, past participle waken)

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

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Descendants

  • English: wake, watch (from the form wacchen)