acordar — meaning in English

English meaning

• awake adj Not asleep; conscious.
• awaken verb To cause to become awake.
• rouse verb To wake someone up, or to stir them out of inactivity.
• wake verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.

Senses

acordar is used for these senses in English:

• rouse (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
• wake (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

awake — full definition

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

awaken — full definition

1. verb To cause to become awake.
2. verb To stop sleeping; awake.
3. verb To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
4. verb Of something previously dormant, to become active.

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