verb
- past tense and past participle of waken; caused to wake up or become awake
- became awake; woke up
Examples
- She was wakened by the sound of thunder.
- The baby wakened crying at three in the morning.
- He wakened to find sunlight streaming through the window.
- The loud noise wakened everyone in the house.
- I wakened early and couldn’t fall back asleep.
- The alarm clock wakened her from a deep sleep.