Lingaku覚ます【さます】
Frequency rank: 23,605. – 23,729.
- to awaken; to arouse from sleep
- to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of)
- to sober up
- to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoilonly applies to 醒ますsee also 冷ます【さます】
Godan verb with 'su' ending; transitive verb
Forms
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to awaken; to arouse from sleep
- to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of)
- to sober up
- to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil
This meaning refers to the action of waking someone from sleep or causing someone to become alert and aware.
This meaning is used when someone is made to realize a truth or fact, often after they were previously misguided or confused.
After hearing that story, he was brought to his senses that he was wrong.
This meaning is related to the process of making someone less intoxicated or bringing them back to a state of clarity after drinking.
This meaning conveys the idea of reducing enthusiasm or causing disappointment, often related to an event or situation.
Generated collocations (experimental)
さます覚ますをするto awakenめをさます目を覚ますto wake upいしき意識をさます覚ますto regain consciousnessよいをさます酔いを覚ますto sober upかんじょう感情をさます覚ますto bring (one's) emotions to the surfaceれいせい冷静さをさます覚ますto regain composureきょうみ興味をさます覚ますto stimulate interestきもち気持ちをさます覚ますto bring (one's) feelings backゆめ夢からさます覚ますto awaken from a dreamもくてき目的をさます覚ますto awaken one's purposeさます覚ますことthe act of awakening
Example sentences
86 results
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
He woke up to find himself lying on a park bench.
He awoke and found himself shut up in a dark room.
When they woke up they saw a stone lying next to them.
He awoke to find himself lying on the bed in the hospital.