Word Finder - awakening

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To cause to become awake.

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She awakened him by ringing the bell.

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To stop sleeping; awake.

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Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

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To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

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Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

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To call to a sense of sin.

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The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

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A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

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Being roused into action or activity.

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Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting

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the awakening city an awakening discourse the awakening dawn.

He stopped as if awakening from a dream and lifted his head.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.

From that day an awakening from life came to Prince Andrew together with his awakening from sleep.

Middle school math can be a rude awakening compared to the math skills that were required in elementary school.

This gig felt like an awakening of potential, a revving of the engine for a long dusty trip to come.

There was nothing terrible or violent in this comparatively slow awakening.

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The Root Awakening products are infused with ingedients like natural eucalyptus and help dry hair gain strength and resiliance.

It is Alice's abilities, her awakening as a vampire with no memories of a human life, that gives her a near zen-like quality among the more troubled members of her family.

Sending this kind of message is a rude awakening to the recipient.

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Therefore new developments in alarm clocks, including the sunrise alarm clock can meet the needs of people who need a gentler option for awakening.

Having the weather forecast available right from the point of awakening means that there is plenty of time to plan and consider the day's activities.

Yoga Journal's Energy Balance Yogais a 60-minute workout with separate sections for awakening, centering, creativity, reflection, and surrender.

But your dedication to practice and respect for the gradual awakening of your body and mind will help you see the path more clearly.

Practitioners of Taoist yoga expand their spiritual awakening and sense of purpose through focused breathing, movement, and learning.

In some Kriya practices, rather than awakening the being within you, you invite it into your physical body from the outside.

Practitioners of Tao yoga use the gentle flowing movements of tai chi and yoga to encourage our natural healing processes and invite spiritual awakening.

Some believe the song is about sexual awakening, while others believe the song is about life as a homosexual.

Elvis' musical awakening began when his family moved to a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Townshend had been studying Baba's writing and believed he had experienced a spiritual awakening.

He wove this awakening into the story of Tommy.

While catatonic, Tommy's subconscious comes to life in the form of a figure in silver robes that leads him on a journey of spiritual awakening.

Symptoms of bacterial conjunctivitis include a pus-like discharge and crusty eyelids after awakening.

Sleep paralysis, a frightening inability to move shortly after awakening or dozing off.

Nightmare disorder is a parasomnia in which the child is repeatedly awakened from sleep by frightening dreams and is fully alert on awakening.

These patterns include inability to fall asleep at bedtime, repeated awakening during the night, and/or inability to go back to sleep once awakened.

The idea here is that since they're "good" and you've cut the ties with your old habits, you can now safely ease up a little on the anti-carb stance without awakening the now slumbering cravings.

The euphoria of his awakening from the coma passed as other symptoms persisted.

After awakening feeling at peace, he was close to pulling a Rhyn and decimating the world around him in an explosion of raw fury.

She confided it to her husband late one night, awakening him from his sleep as Edith Shipton had just awakened him but a week before.

The fury he'd felt since awakening from the dark place the Black God kept him started to fade.

Despite the fact that with the exception of the period of the "Great Awakening" (1740-1742), when he preached as an itinerant in several neighbouring colonies, his active labours were confined to his own parish, his influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher Jonathan Edwards.

During the separation the synod of Philadelphia decreased from twentysix to twenty-two ministers, but the synod of New York grew from twenty to seventy-two ministers, and the New Side reaped all the fruits of the Great Awakening under Whitefield and his successors.

The terrible losses sustained by whole communities of farmers, planters, foresters, &c., from plant diseases have naturally stimulated the search for remedies, but even now the search is too often conducted in the spirit of the believer in quack medicines, although the agricultural world is awakening to the fact that before any measures likely to be successful can be attempted, the whole chain of causation of the disease must be investigated.

In proportion to its population China has the least railway development of any of the great countries of the world; the probability that its present commercial awakening will extend seems large, and in that case it will need a vast increase in its interior communications.

It had a wide influence in awakening popular piety, and the works that issued from it formed the textbooks of mystical and pietistic minds in the centuries that followed.

In several passages of his writings he expressly dates his philosophical awakening from the appearance of the Treatise of Human Nature.

Thenceforward, while the Oxford Movement was awakening one section of the people of England the Primitive Methodists were making themselves felt among other classes of the population.

He believes that he is once more with Briinnhilde on the Valkyries' mountain height; and the harmonies of her awakening move in untroubled splendour till the light of life fades with the light of day and the slain hero is carried to the Gibichung's hall through the moonlit mists, while the music of love and death tells in terrible triumph more of his story than he ever knew.

Her abandonment and awakening are celebrated in the beautiful Epithalamium of Catullus.

In keeping with this, her festivals at Naxos present a double character; the one, full of mourning and sadness, represents her death or abandonment by Theseus, the other, full of joy and revelry, celebrates her awakening from sleep and marriage with Dionysus.

This concession, given under strong pressure from Russia, aroused the deepest resentment of the Greeks, and was the principal factor in the awakening of the Bulgarian national spirit which subsequent events have done so much to develop. Russian influence at Constantinople had been gradually increasing, and towards the end of 1870 the tsar took advantage of the temporary disabling of France to declare himself no longer bound by those clauses of the Treaty of Paris which restricted Russia's liberty of possessing warships on the Black Sea.

The reform of medicine in France must be dated from the great intellectual awakening caused by the Revolution, but more definitely starts with the researches in anatomy and physiology of Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802).

His chief work is a philosophical romance, in which he describes the awakening and growth of intellect in a child removed from the influences of ordinary life.

But besides the vocation he had freely selected and assiduously laboured to fulfil, two more external influences helped to shape Martineau's mind and define his problem and his work; the awakening of English thought to the problems which underlie both philosophy and religion, and the new and higher opportunities offered for their discussion in the periodical press.

The Manichaean system of dualism, with its severe asceticism, and its individualism, which early passed into antinomianism, was attractive to many minds in the awakening of the 11th century.