awakening

To cause to become awake.

“She awakened him by ringing the bell.”

To stop sleeping; awake.

“Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”

To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

“Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!”

To call to a sense of sin.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

Being roused into action or activity.

Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting

“the awakening city an awakening discourse the awakening dawn.”