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reawakened

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Verb

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reawakened

  1. simple past and past participle of reawaken

Adjective

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reawakened (comparative more reawakened, superlative most reawakened)

  1. Being awakened again.
    • 1828, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace[1], Humphrey Milford, page 415:
      But when she was with Natasha she was not vexed with her and did not reproach her. The reawakened power of life that had seized Natasha was so evidently irrepressible and unexpected by her, that in her presence Princess Mary felt that she had no right to reproach her even in her heart.
    • 1830, George Payne Rainsford James, The History of Chivalry[2], H. Colburn and R. Bentley, page 328:
      The land which had given birth to the institution cherished it long; and there its efforts were continually reawakened even in its decline.
    • 1884, Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown, Journal of the Proceedings[3], Paul Hamlyn, page 28:
      The late disastrous fire also worked no little injury to members of our congregation, but I am encouraged to believe that a better and more earnest spirit is making itself felt in the Parish, and that we shall soon be permitted to see the fruits of a reawakened energy and zeal.