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awakened

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //əˈweɪkənd// UK //ɐwˈeɪkənd// awak·ened

adj. feeling awake or becoming aware of something. You use this to describe someone who has just stopped sleeping or has suddenly understood a new idea.

adj. having been roused from sleep or made aware of a particular fact or situation. Often used predicatively after a linking verb or as a participial adjective modifying a noun.


SIMPLE

The loud noise left him fully awakened and alert.

CONTEXTUAL

Once her interest in social justice was awakened, she spent all her free time volunteering at the local shelter.

COMPLEX

The protagonist, newly awakened to the harsh realities of the industrial city, begins to question the comfortable assumptions of his sheltered upbringing.

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Often follows a linking verb like 'feel' or 'remain'; can also function as the past participle of the verb 'awaken'.

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