Word Meanings - AWAKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AWAKEN)

• Raise
• Lift
• heave
• elevate
• exalt
• advance
• promote
• heighten
• enhance
• awaken
• rouse
• excite
• call forth
• cultivate
• rear
• produce
• collect
• summon
• erect
• originate
• propagate
• Stir
• Agitate
• incite
• Instigate
• prompt
• stimulate
• animate
• arouse
• budge
• provoke
• raise
• ruffle

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AWAKEN)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to AWAKEN)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• BUDGE
  To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.