verb (v)

• cause to become awake or conscious(verb.body)

  Synonym:
  arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken
  Antonym:
  cause to sleep
  

  source: wordnet30
• stop sleeping(verb.body)

  Synonym:
  arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken
  Antonym:
  dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off
  

  source: wordnet30
• make aware(verb.cognition)

  Example:
  They were awakened to the sad facts.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.(verb)

  source: webster1913