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[ uh -weyk ] SHOW IPA
/ əˈweɪk / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with or without object), a·woke [uh -wohk ] /əˈwoʊk/ a·waked, a·woke or a·waked or a·wo·ken [uh -woh -kuh n], /əˈwoʊ kən/, a·wak·ing. to wake up; rouse from sleep: I awoke at six with a feeling of dread.
to rouse to action; become active: His flagging interest awoke.
to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant (often followed by to ): She awoke to the realities of life.
adjective waking; not sleeping.
vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
Origin of awake First recorded before 1000; Middle English awaken, Old English awacen, past participle of awæcnan; see a1 , waken
OTHER WORDS FROM awake a·wake·a·ble, adjective half-a·wake, adjective re·a·wake, verb, re·a·woke or re·a·waked, re·a·wak·ing. un·a·wake, adjective
un·a·wake·a·ble, adjective un·a·waked, adjective un·a·wak·ing, adjective
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Words nearby awake aw, awa, AWACS, await, Awaji, awake , awaken, awakening, award, awardee, award wage
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Example sentences from the Web for awake She would go home and tell her now-husband about it and lay awake at night thinking about it.
‘Don’t wait to be perfect:’ 4 top startup tips from a unicorn’s founder and investor | Beth Kowitt| September 6, 2020| Fortune
To be woke is, in theory, to be awake to issues of social and racial justice.
The American Fringes Go Mainstream | Nick Fouriezos| September 6, 2020| Ozy
Johnson was asleep when she came in, but the physician awoke her easily.
Sent Home to Die | by Annie Waldman and Joshua Kaplan| September 2, 2020| ProPublica
While it’s unknown what kind of response Lukashenko expected when Belarus awoke to the news, the election results beggared belief to such an extreme that the country exploded.
Misery in Minsk | Eugene Robinson| August 18, 2020| Ozy
Whenever that rat tried to rest, the scientists spun the table, nudging both rats awake and sometimes pushing them into the water.
Why Sleep Deprivation Kills | Veronique Greenwood| June 4, 2020| Quanta Magazine
My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.
Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero | Darren Aronofsky| September 19, 2014| DAILY BEAST
How many times have your stories kept me awake at night wondering, like a child in the dark, what monsters lurk nearby?
Stephen King, “Falling,” and My Father’s Poetry | Christopher Dickey| September 14, 2014| DAILY BEAST
But the moment suggests to him that if he is awake , then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined.
Haruki Murakami's Weird, Wonderful World | Malcolm Jones| August 15, 2014| DAILY BEAST
There is one intensely sexual passage in which the protagonist cannot tell if he is sleeping or awake .
Haruki Murakami's Weird, Wonderful World | Malcolm Jones| August 15, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Eighty-nine percent occurred when the person was awake , rather than dreaming or dozing.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson| August 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
There's two hundred on our side, but the Yankees'll ride through in the dark and get across before the redcoats are awake .
True to the Old Flag | G. A. Henty
This is partly due to an opiate I have administered to insure complete quiet; and he will not awake for several hours yet.
Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
No, she was awake , and in the magician's shop, and the thing she had seen in his hand was nothing less than Patricia's ring!
Mr. Pat's Little Girl | Mary F. Leonard
When we hear people say that Great Britain is not yet awake to the fact that she is at war I wonder where they keep their eyes.
The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days | Hall Caine
Little boy Blue, awake , awake , And see how merry your charges make!
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British Dictionary definitions for awake verb awakes , awaking , awoke , awaked , awoken or awaked to emerge or rouse from sleep; wake
to become or cause to become alert
(usually foll by to) to become or make aware (of) to awake to reality
Also: awaken (tr) to arouse (feelings, etc) or cause to remember (memories, etc)
adjective (postpositive) not sleeping
(sometimes foll by to) lively or alert
Word Origin for awake Old English awacian, awacan; see wake 1
undefined awake See wake 1
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