awakenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈweɪkən/
• 韻: -eɪkən

動詞

awaken (三人称単数 現在形 awakens, 現在分詞 awakening, 過去形および過去分詞形 awakened) (but see usage notes)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.

   She awakened him by ringing the bell.

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

   Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

3. (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
5. (rare) past participle of awake
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...

6. (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
7. (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.

   I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.

使用する際の注意点

This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (かつ also in awakens かつ awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.

For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.

同意語

• (他動詞, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (自動詞, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven

反意語

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep