*aken*

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Awakened p. pr. & vb. n. Awakening. ] [ OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. āwæcnan, āwæcnian, v. i.; pref. on- + wæcnan to wake. Cf. Awake, v. t. ] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] is dispatched
Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, awakens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An awakening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bake. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A freckle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A few fraknes in his face. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. deserted and unhospitable.
Syn. -- desert, desolate, waste, wild. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. forlorn.
Syn. -- desolate, forlorn, lorn, sad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prob. from OSw. krake, or ODan. krage the trunk of a tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was likened by the Norwegian mariners. ] A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus. [ 1913 Webster ]

To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

p.a. 1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By mistake. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shocked. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. ācen. ] Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. “In oaken bower.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. or prep. Excepted; save. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To awaken once again. Usually used without the hyphen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Impaired, as by a shock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The snakebird, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A net for catching crabs. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Take. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. pr. Wakened p. pr. & vb. n. Wakening. ] [ OE. waknen, AS. wæcnan; akin to Goth. gawaknan. See Wake, v. i. ] To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. [ 1913 Webster ]

Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken. “Go, waken Eve.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus' martial muse
Wakened the world. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

They introduce
Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wakens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) The revival of an action. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Weakened p. pr. & vb. n. Weakening. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Neh. vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination. “His notion weakens, his discernings are lethargied.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, weakens. “[ Fastings ] weakeners of sin.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaken by the wind; specif. (Forestry), affected by wind shake, or anemosis (which see, above). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]