awaken someone to something

awaken | American Dictionary

awaken
verb[ I/T ]
us/əˈweɪ·kən/
to stop sleeping, or to cause someone to stop sleeping:
[ T ]The family was awakened by a noise.
fig. If interest is awakened, it is made more active:
[ T ]His television series awakened popular interest in American architecture.

Examples of awaken

awaken
The relatively low average is partially due to the fact that subjects were carrying out short experiments and wanted to awaken with full recall.
However, the subjects did find the solutions to the problems with relative ease during the first hour after awakening in the morning.
We are being rudely awakened to a sense of unity in matters political, economic, scientific, and even cultural.
You awaken one morning on your amply outfitted but very small boat to find that a shipwrecked sailor has climbed aboard.
Upon awakening, the interpretive process accelerates as the dormant verbal and meaning modules of the left temporal and prefrontal cortices become active.
Sometimes awakening is facilitated by a frightening or bizarre dream, which then is vividly remembered.
The workers were denied it because it contained within it possibilities for awakening the masses.
He announced that his utopian dream was real and that society was a nightmare from which all must awaken.
Yes, it may awaken a longing in us for a time when there was certainty.
Understanding the awakening spirit of a professional teaching force.
In performance, she finds that her senses are awakened and open to a heightened level of sensitivity.
But such spatial homogenisation had awakened various tensions among the residents in the 1990s.
Assume that awakening takes place from deep sleep; it takes time before recall can be made.
Another problem can be that distractions at awakening impair dream recall.
Now, awakened, they perceived the bitterness and anger of the people, and regarded it as their duty to express them.
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