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Definition of Reawaken

1. Verb. Awaken once again.

Definition of Reawaken

1. Verb. To wake after an extended period of sleep ¹

2. Verb. To reactivate or reanimate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reawaken

1. awaken [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: awaken

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reawaken

Literary usage of Reawaken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1894)
"All cub- sequent endeavours of the popes to reawaken an interest in the crusades were unavailing. Acre or Ptolemais, the last stronghold of the Christians ..."

2. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"Arise, O King, reawaken thy desire for these! quicken thy longing after life! "' Thine, O King, are those four and eighty thousand State horses, ..."

3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"This dormant plasticity, then, the hypnotic suggestions reawaken. ... They reawaken it neither blindly nor wisely, but with intelligent caprice. ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"This dormant plasticity, then, the hypnotic suggestions reawaken. ... They reawaken it neither blindly nor wisely, but with intelligent caprice. ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A living organism usually displays active metabolism of proteid, but the metabolism may slow down, actually cease and yet reawaken; a dead organism is one ..."

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