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open one's eyes

VERB
disillusion
Synonyms
STRONGEST
disappoint embitter
STRONG
disabuse
WEAK
bring down to earth burst the bubble disenthrall
Antonyms
STRONGEST
make happy
VERB
waken
Synonyms
STRONG
arise arouse awake awaken bestir call nudge prod rise rouse shake stir stretch
WEAK
be roused bring to life come to get out of bed get up rise and shine roll out tumble out turn out wake up
Antonyms
STRONG
calm deaden discourage go to sleep lull sleep
VERB
wake/waken
Synonyms
WEAK
arise awake awaken be roused bestir bring to life call come to get out of bed get up nudge prod rise rise and shine roll out rouse shake stir stretch tumble out turn out wake up
Antonyms
WEAK
discourage dissuade nap sleep

Example Sentences

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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one’s eyes and look at things as they are? 

From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles

I don't agree with a lot of it myself—we Airedales have always been conservatively inclined; but I am bound to say that three years in the Army open one's eyes to a lot of things.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various

It is not enough to open one's eyes on scenes; one must be able to be en rapport with them.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

These "certain proofs" have been available for a long time; one has only to open one's eyes to see them.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August