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wakens
verb as in stop sleeping
verb as in excite, stimulate
Example Sentences
The carter wakens, snorts, stretches himself before climbing down.
He forces his horse through the flames and wakens Brynhild, who gives herself to him joyfully because he has proved his valor in reaching her.
“It really wakens my students to what they can actually accomplish and what they can do, that they’re not limited to making change in their lifetimes,” he said.
President Trump wakens the American giant to the trade war China has been waging against us for decades, and all the principled purists along the Potomac begin bleating and sputtering about “free trade” and “protectionism.”
Finally, there is an a cappella performance of the Irish song of rebellion “A Row in the Town,” and it is performed with an anger that wakens the senses as it freezes the blood.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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