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Awakens vs Wakens - What's the difference?

awakens | wakens |

As verbs the difference between awakens and wakens

is that awakens is (awaken) while wakens is (waken).

awakens

English

Verb

(head)
  • (awaken)

  • awaken

    English

    Verb

  • To cause to become awake.
  • She awakened him by ringing the bell.
  • To cause to become conscious.
  • How to awaken your brain?
    How to awaken your entrepreneurial spirit?
    We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
  • To stop sleeping.
  • Each morning he awakens with a smile in his face.

    Synonyms

    * awake, stir

    Antonyms

    * (stop sleeping) fall asleep

    wakens

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (waken)

  • waken

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
  • (lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.