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ontwaken — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • awake adj Not asleep; conscious.
  • wake verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.

Senses

ontwaken is used for these senses in English:

  • awake (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
  • wake (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
  • wake up (intransitive) To stop sleeping; to awake.
  • wake up (intransitive) To become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand.

awake — full definition

  1. adj Not asleep; conscious.
  2. verb To stop sleeping, or to wake someone else up.

wake — full definition

  1. verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.
  2. noun A gathering held before or after a funeral to remember the person who died.
  3. noun The trail of disturbed water left behind a moving boat, or turbulence left behind anything moving through air or water.

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