To Wake Up
To Awaken
intransitive verb, ichidan verb
If your eyes are awake then you're going to wake up. Your eyes are usually the first thing to awaken when you're waking up, you know?
This word can also mean to awaken but it's like when you to come to your senses, not literally waking up.
The readings for this word are both kun'yomi readings. You haven’t learned this reading for 覚 yet, and in this case it also gets rendaku’d, so bear that in mind. Anyway, here’s a mnemonic to help you:
If you start to wake up in the middle of the night, it’s because of the Czar (ざ) you met that had banned sitting. This cruel, ruthless Czar keeps appearing in your nightmares, causing you to wake up incessantly. Terrifying.
このライフハックを使うと、朝、すっきり目覚めることができます。
I use this lifehack in the morning so I can wake up properly.
ケンはやっと社長としての責任感に目覚めたようだね。
It seems that Ken has finally become conscious of his responsibilities as a company president.
省エネのため冷房の温度を三十度に設定しているせいで、目覚めたら汗だくになっていました。
To save energy, I set the temperature of the air conditioner to 30℃, so when I woke up, I was drenched.