reawaken

verb

re·awak·en (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈwā-kən

reawakened; reawakening; reawakens

Synonyms of reawaken next

transitive + intransitive

: to awaken (someone or something) again

a photo that reawakened past memories

a movie that has reawakened interest in their story

Harry's temporarily stupefied brain seemed to reawaken.—

J. K. Rowling

reawakening noun

plural reawakenings

a spiritual reawakening

The Taylor demo … signals a reawakening of militant activism in New York. —

Sarah Ferguson

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Spring: Nature reawakens and hike a hill (Image credit: Kirk Fisher / Getty Images) Coeur d'Alene is postcard pretty, with its rivers, lakes, valleys and trees as far as the eye can see. —

Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 8 Oct. 2024 Immediately upon being plucked from the proverbial shadows of the backroom studio, Alessandro Michele astonished with his new Gucci, a house reawakened by an intriguing gentility rich with influences from antiquity to today’s urban culture. —

Bridget Foley, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024 Drinking water afterwards can help re-ground and reawaken physical senses. —

Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024 The terror and trauma of that brutal campaign has been reawakened in recent weeks in parts of Iraq. —

Khalid Razak, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reawaken