Word Finder - awakens

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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.

Fresh knowledge, new forces and faculties, have to be acquired by positive and strenuous efforts, while, on the other hand, delusions and superstitions are to be abandoned by an attitude of conscious neglect; or to use the phraseology of the Hindus, Avidyd, nescience - the mental state of the unenlightened - through which the individual energies are scattered and dissipated in futile effort, is gradually replaced by Vidyd, the higher wisdom which dispels the darkness of the mind, awakens our latent faculties and concentrates our efforts in the direction of that harmonious union, which ultimately results in Nirvana.

This was simply a cumbrous way of saying that God awakens in the righteous heart an intuitive faculty of discerning right from wrong.

Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later.

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers.

As they are dragged through the rift caves to Quentaris some of the slaves undergo a change that awakens some dormant psychic abilities.

After a disastrous incident at sea the young hero of the game awakens to find himself on a seemingly uninhabited island.

It is unfortunate, as it awakens prejudice, but in the present writer's opinion it is true, that crystal-gazing sometimes is rewarded with results which may be styled "supra-normal."

If he goes to sleep quite easily but awakens later in the night, he has forgotten how to settle himself back to sleep.

If you rock or nurse your child to sleep, but he awakens later in the night crying for you, you need to begin placing him in his bed while he is drowsy but still awake.

If your child goes to sleep just fine, but then he awakens in the middle of the night, you'll have to stop yourself from rushing to his bedside.

What do you do when your baby awakens at night?

Just like you, he will have periods of light and deep sleep, and he needs to understand how to return to sleep on his own if he awakens during the night.

The key here is to teach baby that nighttime is for sleeping, even after he awakens to eat or be changed.

Either their child won't take naps during the day and is absolutely exhausted-and cranky-at night, or their child takes a good nap during the day, but awakens frequently at night.

When your baby is sleeping, you can enjoy the peace and quiet with the assurance that you'll hear your baby when he or she awakens.

By doing this, you are teaching her how to put herself back to sleep when she awakens during the night.

In this manner, she will soon understand how to settle herself back to sleep if she awakens in the night.

Color awakens one's senses in either a pleasant or unpleasant way, and we all feel differently about individual colors, and coordinating groups of colors known as color schemes or palettes.

Every Christmas awakens the Lord into all hearts anew.

This varies depending on several factors, and the stage in which a person awakens varies from day to day.

Usually the patient either awakens with sharp pain or is bothered by a foreign body sensation that is worse in the morning.

At some future time, the virus "awakens" and causes the cell to produce thousands of new viruses that cause an active infection.

Sleep terror disorder is a parasomnia in which the child awakens screaming or crying.

Child awakens during the last third of her sleep period.

After falling asleep with it under the tree, she awakens to find herself shrinking.

The idea plays about my heart and awakens all the tender sentiments that years have increased and matured."

The show also awakens a love of science and scientific exploration.

Discovered 57 years later, Ripley is rescued and awakens to find much has changed in her absence.

Marcus, the vampire twin, awakens and is now on a mission to free his brother William from the crypt where he has been entombed for more than six thousand years.

When he awakens, he finds himself ... elsewhere.

By season's end Lex travels to the Fortress to fulfill his destiny and Lana awakens from her coma.

King's Head Theater Spring 2003 An elderly Fijian matriarch awakens in the small hours in her home in a New Zealand suburb.