awaken

To cause to become awake.

Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes

To stop sleeping; awake.

Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.

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

Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

To call to a sense of sin.

To cause to become aware.