awakening > define

noun

• The act of waking.
  • usage: "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most"
  • synonyms: wakening, waking up

verb

• Cause to become awake or conscious.
  • usage: "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
  • synonyms: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
• Stop sleeping.
  • usage: "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
  • synonyms: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
• Make aware.
  • usage: "They were awakened to the sad facts"
  • synonyms: awaken

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Awaken.
• (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.
• (n.) The act of awaking or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion or more general attention to religious matters than usual.