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Waken vs Wakeup - What's the difference?

waken | wakeup |

As a verb waken

is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.

As a noun wakeup is

the act of waking up.

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.
  • wakeup

    English

    Alternative forms

    *wake-up

    Noun

  • (en noun)
  • The act of waking up
  • See also

    *wake up