To cause to become awake.
She awakened him by ringing the bell.
To stop sleeping; awake.
Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
To call to a sense of sin.
The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
Being roused into action or activity.
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
the awakening city an awakening discourse the awakening dawn.