awaken

Other forms of awaken

past tense

awakenned·

present participle

awakenning·

third person

awakens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about awaken

What does awaken mean?

awaken means "cause to become awake or conscious". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in awaken?

awaken has 3 syllables: a-wa-ken. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /əˈweɪkən/.

What is another word for awaken?

Close synonyms include wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of awaken?

The recorded antonyms are cause to sleep.

Is awaken a common word?

awaken is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with awaken?

2 words rhyme with awaken. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.