awaken
verb
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To cause to become aware.
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To call to a sense of sin.
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To cause to become awake.
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To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
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To stop sleeping; awake.
give someone a shot in the arm
How often have the words awaken and give someone a shot in the arm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )