awoken
pronunciation
How to pronounce awoken in British English:
UK [əˈwəʊkən]
How to pronounce awoken in American English:
US [əˈwoʊkən]
Word Origin
- awoken
- past participle of awake (v.); also see awaken. The tendency has been to restrict the strong past participle (awoken) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete.
Example
- 1. Something in me had been awoken .
- 2. I was awoken by a noise in the night .
- 3. She was awoken by a sharp stabbing pain in her chest .
- 4. Every morning for the past week I have awoken with the same thought : I have witnessed a miracle ; we have toppled a dictator .
- 5. As other foreign suitors have awoken to the intensifying competition , african countries have found their bargaining power greatly improved .