ontwaken — meaning in English
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English meaning
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
- adj Not asleep; conscious.
- verb To stop sleeping, or to wake someone else up.
wake — full definition
- verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.
- noun A gathering held before or after a funeral to remember the person who died.
- noun The trail of disturbed water left behind a moving boat, or turbulence left behind anything moving through air or water.