Definition of "awoken" []

• A past participle of awake. (verb)

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• "He's most likely going to act as a child would who has just awoken from a 100 year nap to find out he let the world go to ruin and everyone he knew and loved has been long dead."
• "Early this morning, after a rare restless and mostly sleepless night, I was awoken from a very deep sleep by the unmistakable, piercingly loud bark/howl of a coyote that sounded like it was right outside in my front yard."
• "MILAN (AP) Spanish rider Pedro Horillo Munoz was awoken from a 24-hour coma Sunday after tumbling off the side of the road during a high-speed descent at the Giro d'Italia."