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Naken vs Waken - What's the difference?

naken | waken |

As verbs the difference between naken and waken

is that naken is to make naked; nake while waken is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.

naken

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make naked; nake.
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    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.
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  • *: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.

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