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awaken

verb as in make conscious or alert

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Rudely awakened from what turned out to be a dream, Savita is told to get ready as a group of men are coming to see her.

From BBC

Billboard described the track, which peaked at number two in the UK chart, as "a glorious queer awakening".

From BBC

"It awakened a right-leaning Rick to an eventual life of political activism, cannabis reform, and philanthropy."

From Salon

Osborn can sound like a factory man from a Bruce Springsteen song, a character whose youthful exuberance and restless sense of escape have been tempered by life’s hard awakenings.

Trump has said that U.S. troops could be used to “take back” the canal, awakening dark memories of when Americans invaded Panama in 1989.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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