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  • verb To wake after an extended period of sleep
  • verb To reactivate or reanimate

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  • verb awaken once again

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Examples

  • Specialty sleep exec expects category to 'reawaken' in next few years

    Furniture Today Business News 2009

  • The 66-year-old has said on his website that he hoped his Tel Aviv concert would "reawaken" the idea of peace.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • Alternative-energy companies gained from expectations that Japan's disaster will reawaken concern about nuclear power.

    Europe Falls on Fear About Japan's Crisis Ishaq Siddiqi 2011

  • I would like to thank all those, such as Bruce Blair, who sought to reawaken the world to the danger of the second age of nuclear war we were entering and shook me out of my complacency sufficiently to make it my mission to try to map out the terra incognita terror incognita? of the new nuclear landscape.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • It was against 10 men that Lionel Messi struck twice to reawaken the campaign for his inclusion among the all-time greats.

    Things must be bad for José Mourinho – even Arsène Wenger sympathises | Richard Williams 2011

  • The alternative is to hope that politicians in the U.S and Europe will introduce the fiscal and labor reforms needed to reawaken demand and investment growth.

    Why This Crisis Differs From the 2008 Version Francesco Guerrera 2011

  • The solution to the crisis, he argued, was to "curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment," to "reawaken the industrial giant", and to "cut government spending and to lighten our punitive tax burden."

    Jerome Karabel: The Democratic Debacle of 2010: A Premature Postmortem Jerome Karabel 2010

  • I would like to thank all those, such as Bruce Blair, who sought to reawaken the world to the danger of the second age of nuclear war we were entering and shook me out of my complacency sufficiently to make it my mission to try to map out the terra incognita terror incognita? of the new nuclear landscape.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • With Cabane he hopes to reawaken in audiences that childhood desire to let imagination run free.

    My preview of Fortier Danse Creation’s Cabane ewillett 2009

  • At some point prices of assets will become so cheap that they will reawaken the "animal spirits" of both investors and companies.

    Why This Crisis Differs From the 2008 Version Francesco Guerrera 2011

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