waken

verb

Etymology: From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

1. To wake or rouse from sleep.
2. To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.

   “Early, Turnus wakening with the light.”

   “She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.”