Thesaurus:awaken
English
[edit]Verb
[edit](transitive)
Sense: to cause somebody to stop sleeping
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- arouse [⇒ thesaurus]
- awake [⇒ thesaurus]
- awaken
- bring round
- cry
- knock up (British)
- rouse
- roust
- uprouse
- wake [⇒ thesaurus]
- wake up
- waken
Antonyms
[edit]- anesthetize
- belull
- cradle
- knock out
- lull
- put down (idiomatic)
- put to sleep
Hyponyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:wake (intransitive verb)
- Thesaurus:awake (adjective)
- Thesaurus:wakefulness (noun)
Further reading
[edit]- “682. activity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “awaken” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.