This is the 10870th most frequent Spanish word.
despertó
"Woke up."
In this sentence, 'se despertó' is used to indicate the reflexive action of the subject waking up from sleep.
El niño se despertó temprano para ir al colegio.
The child woke up early to go to school.
Here, 'despertó' is utilized to describe the action of waking someone else up, where the actor causing the action is the noise.
El ruido despertó a los vecinos en plena noche.
The noise woke the neighbors up in the middle of the night.
In this sentence, 'despertó' metaphorically expresses the arousal or inspiration of a feeling or passion.