The Grammatical History of 'Awaken' / 'Awoken' / 'Awakened' Wake up, people. Awake and awaken are two distinct verbs that both mean "to rise from sleep." The verb forms for awake are irregular, but the most common choices are awake, awoke, and was awoken.

What does it mean to awaken something?

Definition of awaken (someone or something) to (something)

: to make (someone or something) aware of (something) The book will awaken their minds to the beauty of nature.

How do you use awoken in a sentence?

In the early hours of one morning, she was awoken by a noise. They were awoken at dead of night by a thump on the door. ... Deeba is awoken in the middle of the night and spies a moving broken umbrella. He claims to have awoken four days later, and noticed strange burn marks on his body.