awaken someone to something

Examples of awakened

awakened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

We are being rudely awakened to a sense of unity in matters political, economic, scientific, and even cultural.
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.
Now, awakened, they perceived the bitterness and anger of the people, and regarded it as their duty to express them.
He was and remained my mentor, the one who awakened me, as so many others, to the excitement of the idea built.
Whether the individual anticipates being awakened or not may also matter.
When such interest does not exist, it must be awakened.
Almost invariably subjects in these types of experiments are never awakened to sample mentation in relation to learning.
At the same time the need for a better understanding of the creative possibilities of the subjects was awakened.
The section also serves to introduce some of the problems and academic discussions that the use of these methods has awakened.
Awakened from the dormancy of the war years, it absorbed the meek blows of soft opposition, and waited patiently for a real crisis to brew.
To what kind of life the span dimensions should or can become awakened is then a matter of art.
In fact, the pro-democracy group is largely an urban middle-class phenomenon with a sprinkle of awakened political society.
It was primarily a response to an awakened national conscience, demanding that the constitutional paper guarantees be made real in action.
On the other hand, the extent of the disease awakened the humanitarian instincts of colonizers who took their 'civilizing' objectives seriously.
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