Awakens vs Awakes - What's the difference?
awakens | awakes |
(awaken)
To cause to become awake.
To cause to become conscious.
To stop sleeping.
(awake)
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
As verbs the difference between awakens and awakes
is that awakens is third-person singular of awaken while awakes is third-person singular of awake.awakens
English
Verb
(head)awaken
English
Verb
- She awakened him by ringing the bell.
- How to awaken your brain?
- How to awaken your entrepreneurial spirit?
- We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
- Each morning he awakens with a smile in his face.