[ He ] is dispatched
Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. bound by an agreement to become married to someone.
Syn. -- affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . .
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note. [ 1913 Webster ]

While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. “Blackened the whole heavens.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Subdued; humbled; contrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. “Her broken love and life.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. --
Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. --
Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. --
Broken number, a fraction. --
Broken weather, unsettled weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. “Stella is no chicken.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ locusts ] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
To darken all the hill. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render dim; to deprive of vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job. xxxviii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cast a gloom upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth of the feast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must not think there are
Evils enough to darken all his goodness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]