waken

waken is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
2. transitive verb. To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
3. transitive verb. To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
4. verb. stop sleeping

   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"

   Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, wake

5. verb. cause to become awake or conscious

   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"

   "Please wake me at 6 AM."

   Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake

Synonyms

arouse, awake, awaken, wake, rouse

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in waken:

knawe

Common word forms

wakens, wakened, wakener, wakening

Words from these letters

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