Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“awakens” is a form of

awaken

/əˈweɪkən/ verb

Also a form of awake

Forms awakens awakening awakened

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to become awake.
  2. verb (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake. “Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. “Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!”
  4. verb (intransitive) Of something previously dormant, to become active.
  5. verb (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
  6. verb (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
  7. verb (intransitive, figurative) To become aware. “I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.”

Synonyms

knock up uprouse awake stir abraid arise arouse get up rise rouse wake wake up waken animate energize beghast leaven bright brighten cheer come alive

Antonyms

fall asleep anesthetize belull cradle knock out lull put down put to sleep cause to sleep

Etymology

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

Etymology [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. awæcnan, awæcnian, v. i.; pref. on- + wæcnan to wake. Cf. Awake, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “awaken”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “awaken” (best matches first).

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