awaken

verb

1. (transitive)To cause to become awake.

   “Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes”

2. (intransitive)To stop sleeping; awake.

   “Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”

   “For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.”

3. (figuratively, transitive)To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   “Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!”

   “We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.”

   “He tries to awaken in them self-respect and reverence for their own spiritual culture.”

   “On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.”

4. (intransitive)Of something previously dormant, to become active.

   “I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

5. To call to a sense of sin.
6. (form-of, participle, past, rare)past participle of awake

   “[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...”

7. (figuratively, transitive)To cause to become aware.
8. (figuratively, intransitive)To become aware.

   “I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.”

   “[S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.”