acordar — meaning in English

English meaning

• awake adj Not asleep; conscious.
• awaken verb To make someone wake up.
• 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 make someone wake up.
2. verb To wake up from sleep.
3. verb To stir something into activity after it has been inactive.
4. verb To become active again after being inactive.

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