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Definition: Reawaken |
ReawakenVerb1. Awaken once again. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reawaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Crosswords: Reawaken |
| English words defined with "reawaken": revival, revival meeting, revivalism. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Is it time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden. |
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| "Reawaken" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Reawaken" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "reawaken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | ولد من جديد, وغظ من جديد, صحا للمرة الثانية, جدد (freshen, furbish, innovate, modernize, recondition, redeem, refurbish, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retrieve). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 回忆 (recall, recollect, Re-collect, Recollected, Recollecting, reminiscence, reminiscent). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | réveiller de nouveau, se réveiller de nouveau, faire renaître. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wiedererwecken (bring back to life, rekindle, revival, revive), wiedererwachen (reawake, reawakening, rekindle, renaissance), wiederaufleben (reawakening, rekindle, resurgence, revival, revive, revivification, reviviscence, to rekindle), auferwecken (raise from the dead). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | újra felébreszt (to reawaken), újra felébred (to reawaken). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | svegliare (arouse, awake, be roused, call, rouse, stir, to wake up, wake, waken). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | aaghoostey. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eawakenray återväcka, återuppväcka (resurrect, revive). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conresuscitavit, resuscita, resuscitabo, resuscitavit, resuscitem, resuscites, resuscitet. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reawaken": reawakened, reawakening, reawakens. (additional references) | |
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"Reawaken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reawoken. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reawaken" (pronounced rē'uwā"kun) |
| 6 | -u w ā" k u n | awaken. |
| 5 | -w ā" k u n | waken. |
| 4 | -ā" k u n | bacon, forsaken, Macon, mistaken, retaken, shaken, taken, unshaken. |
| 3 | -k u n | beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, falcon, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, misspoken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reckon, republican, second, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unspoken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: awakener. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-k-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: reawake, rewaken, wakener. | |
-2 letters: awaken, rewake, weaken, weaker, weaner. | |
-3 letters: akene, anear, areae, arena, awake, aware, kerne, newer, rakee, ranee, renew, rewan, waken, waker, wreak. | |
-4 letters: akee, anew, arak, area, awee, earn, erne, ewer, kana, kane, karn, keen, kern, knar, knee, knew, nark, near, rake, rank, reek, wake, wane, ware, wark, warn, weak, wean, wear, week, ween, weer, weka, were, wren. | |
-5 letters: ana, ane, are, ark, awa, awe, awn, ear, eke, era, ere, ern, ewe, kae, kea, ken, nae, naw, nee, new, ran, raw, ree, wae, wan, war, wee, wen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-k-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: awakeners, reawakens. | |
+2 letters: reawakened. | |
+3 letters: reawakening. | |
+5 letters: awkwardnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 77 61 6B 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- .--. .- -.- . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01110111 01100001 01101011 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a w a k e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0077 0061 006B 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271678967777180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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