wake up **
awake **
arouse *
awaken *
wake ***
come alive
waken

His eyes come alive for the first time in days.

She had made him come alive in heart and mind.

But she had come alive with him, in more than one sense.

She came more alive then than at any other time.

God, the way she had come alive these past few days!

When he is near, my whole being seems to come alive.

But now, out in the water, some of the past came alive again.

And the night came alive with the light of the past.

In fact, someone probably hadn't wanted him to come back alive.

We went to get into the car when the radio came alive again.