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wakened

adjective as in waking

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They rushed home and wakened family members, knocked on neighbors’ doors, roused children from their beds, spreading the news.

“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.

The next morning when he wakened, it was late.

Fortunately, the weather is so hot that she cannot get cold; but still the anxiety and the perpetually being wakened is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous and wakeful myself.

The voice of Mrs. Fairfax, speaking to a servant in the hall, wakened you: and how curiously you smiled to and at yourself, Janet!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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