awakes
Sayuh-WAYKS/əˈweɪks/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of awake.
Each spring the quiet harbor town awakes as the first visitors arrive.
The scent of salt air awakes memories she thought she had lost.
Note
Whether anything follows decides who wakes: a sleeper awakes, but a noise awakes the sleeper. The same split runs through the figurative uses, where something dormant either stirs by itself or is stirred, and the object can be a feeling or a latent quality as easily as a person, as when a reunion awakes an old rivalry.
awakes is a form of awake
awake, verb: To become conscious again after a period of sleep. Full entry
- Spelling
- awake → awakes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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