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Waker vs Waken - What's the difference?

waker | waken |

As an adjective waker

is watchful; vigilant; alert.

As a noun waker

is one who wakes somebody or something.

As a verb waken is

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

waker

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wakyr, from (etyl) wacor, .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Watchful; vigilant; alert.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who wakes somebody or something.
    • Derived terms
    * waker-upper

    Anagrams

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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.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Related terms

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