(v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(2) A statistically significant difference (p less than 0.01) was found between salmeterol and the association for this criteria: during the first period, 46% of subjects treated by salmeterol did not present nocturnal awakenings during the last treatment week by comparison with 15% of subjects taking the association; during the second period, corresponding figures were 39% for salmeterol by comparison with 26% for the association.
(3) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
(4) Total sleep time (TST) and sleep efficiency (SE) significantly decreased, and wake during sleep (WDS), number of awakenings, and percentage of stage one significantly increased across the decades.
(5) Both doses of CM 6912 increased total sleep time, and reduced sleep latency and total awakening in a dose-dependent manner.
(6) Awakening produced desynchronization of electrical activity in all cortical layers of both hemispheres.
(7) Although phenacetin prolonged sleep there was no corresponding increase in urine volume on awakening.
(8) Analysis showed that 24% had delayed sleep onset, 23% awakened frequently, 19% awakened early, 21% were dissatisfied with sleep, and 8% took medication to aid sleep.
(9) This change has been made possible by: -techniques of anaesthesia using drugs which are eliminated rapidly without any rebound phenomenon, -medical attitudes, such as prior examination of the patient by an anesthetist; this is much better than a rapid examination at night or in the morning on admission of the patient, thus precise control of awakening by tests of psychomotor activity.
(10) In narcolepsy characteristic symptoms are sleep attacks, kataplexy (emotionally induced loss of muscle tone) and transient pareses during awakening.
(11) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
(12) There was, however, a statistically significant improvement of the objectively evaluated quality of awakening and early morning behavior characterized by an improved attention, reaction time and performance in the reaction time task, while concentration and psychomotor activity tended to improve as as well.
(13) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
(14) The greater reduction was observed during the 3-hour interval immediately after awakening, a period with a risk of infarction twice that of any other comparable time interval (p less than 0.001).
(15) As for the inner experience of the subjects, they frequently reported dream and distinct mentations on awakening from REM sleep whether or not it was accompanied by Fm theta.
(16) The last hour of spontaneous awakenings from uninterrupted sleep of 16 young adults was analyzed.
(17) Patient awakening at the end of the infusion period was rapid and without sequelae.
(18) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
(19) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(20) No temperature elevations were recorded in the posterior longitudinal ligament at the disc level and all animals recovered fully with no adverse sequelae, even immediately upon awakening from anesthesia.
Awoken
Definition:
() of Awake
Example Sentences:
(1) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(2) No effect was apparent, when subjects were awoken during the first hours of sleep, which is known to be a quiescent period of adrenocorticotropic activity.
(3) At 7am, the president was awoken and told that two units of the navy had rebelled at Valparaiso, controlling two of the country's three cruisers.
(4) Dreams can occur during all sleep stages but the most vivid dreams tend to be reported when people are awoken from REM sleep.
(5) One older son, Faizullah, recalled being awoken by someone telling him there had been a shooting at his father's compound.
(6) Transitory eye pain occurred during sleep in a 62 year-old patient, who complained of being often awoken during the second half of the night.
(7) Drilling on a small scale has already given rise to small earth tremors – people in the village of Singleton, Lancashire, were awoken by small earthquakes in April and May 2011, caused by fracking by Cuadrilla.
(8) She was awoken by an alert call from the Environment Agency at 6.30am, warning of severe flooding in the area of her home, which is a mile from the coast.
(9) A neighbour in the village of Seaton, awoken by a suspicious noise, saw the car disappearing down the street.
(10) 2.22pm GMT 20 mins City have awoken from that the daze heaped upon them by Borini’s punch on the nose and look to have recovered their nerve.
(11) Modernisation now looks like a brief nightmare from which a relieved party has awoken, and most elements of the Tory agenda seem to have been signed off by their campaigning guru Lynton Crosby .
(12) Early on Monday, Thiele had awoken to shouts and felt his fourth-storey corner office swaying.
(13) It would put the existing architecture into a kind of zero-price “sleeping beauty style” hibernation, with the independent Climate Change Authority getting a last-minute stay of execution so it can advise on when it should be re-awoken.
(14) Buffon came for a corner with all the effectiveness of a suddenly awoken man groping in the dark for his dressing gown.
(15) Sewell reveals that when he went to pick up his US co-conspirator from his hotel, Mendez was still asleep and had to be awoken with a phone call.
(16) Riding crops Because … This crisis has not only tainted millions of low-grade, meat-based ready meal experiences and potentially become a danger to public health, it has awoken one of the most important and volatile pressure groups in the country – the half-arsed Photoshopping community.
(17) But his parents had relatives in France; and so the two children, at the age of 11, were awoken in the middle of the night and bundled into a car for hope of a better life.
(18) The drilling fight has awoken this normally laconic city of roughly 125,000 inhabitants 40 miles north of Dallas.
(19) Then Matt Holliday laces a double into the gap in right-center field, and the Cards bats have awoken in the third.
(20) Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken."