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wake1 /weɪk /verb (past woke /wəʊk/ or US, dialect, or archaic waked; past participle woken /ˈwəʊk(ə)n/ or US, dialect, or archaic waked)1Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep; stop sleeping: [no object]: she woke up feeling better [with object]: I woke him gently...- I woke up on Tuesday morning after a few hours fitful sleep and went back to the hospital.
- Debbie was still asleep so I decided to try and go back to sleep until she woke up.
- A little voice in her head woke her up this is not how you're going to start the New Year is it?
Synonyms awake, awaken, waken (up), rouse, stir, come to, come around; get up, get out of bed, bestir oneself, get going, come alive, show signs of life literary arise waken, rouse, arouse, bring to, bring around British informal knock up 1.1 [no object] ( wake up to) Become alert to or aware of: he needs to wake up to reality...- I also hope now more than I ever did during my life that people wake up to what a barbaric punishment this is.
- And the thing is, just occasionally, you wake up to how bizarre your own life is.
- South Africans are waking up to the reality of child rape and sexual abuse.
Synonyms realize, become aware of, become conscious of, become mindful of, become heedful of, become alert to 1.2 [with object] Cause to stir or come to life: his voice wakes desire in others...- Honestly, these things are probably loud enough to wake the dead.
- One by one as we scurried them towards the tow-line and began to lever them into harness, they raised their muzzles and let out a yowl to wake the dead.
- My snores were, by all accounts, loud enough to wake the dead.
Synonyms evoke, call up, conjure up, rouse, stir, revive, awaken, refresh, renew, resuscitate, revivify, rekindle, reignite, rejuvenate, stimulate 2 [with object] Irish or North American dialect Hold a vigil beside (someone who has died): we waked Jim last night noun1A watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances: he was attending a friend’s wake...- Bodies in the United States are usually kept in the funeral homes till the wake is done.
- Any breach of the rule was to result in a withdrawal by the clergy of their services at the wake and funeral.
- A death in the Creole community is observed with an evening wake in the family's home.
1.1(Especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral.They offered to help and they organised the wake after the funeral....- It is believed the bar had hosted a funeral wake on Friday, but it was not yet known if the victim was connected to the event.
- After the funeral comes the wake, the time for contemplation as the past releases its grip.
Synonyms vigil, death-watch, watch; funeral 2 ( wakes) [treated as singular] An annual festival and holiday held in some parts of northern England, originally one held in a rural parish on the feast day of the patron saint of the church: his workers absented themselves for the local wakes [as modifier]: wakes weeks...- Statutory Bank Holidays belong to the same tradition as the old northern wakes weeks.
- For that to work in Lancashire, all schools would need to take the same holidays - meaning an end to the wakes weeks holidays in Burnley and Pendle.
- Many parents said they would still have to take their children on holiday in wakes weeks.
Probably from Old Norse vaka Phraseswake up and smell the coffee Derivativeswaker /ˈweɪkə/ noun ...- But soon the silent bliss was ended, as the sun slowly began its morning ascent, and the early wakers came to life.
- Tashakawa suggested that David should be appointed as official lullaby maker at bedtime, and morning melody waker upper, flutewise.
OriginOld English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian 'remain awake, hold a vigil', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch. watch from Old English: In Old English watch meant ‘to be or remain awake’, and it is from the same root as wake (Old English) and awake (Old English). The connection with timepieces arose because in the 15th century the first watches were alarm clocks of some kind, whose function was to wake you up. The watches of the night are the hours of night, especially as a time when you cannot sleep. This watch was one of the periods into which the night was divided for the purposes of guard duty. The link with insomnia first appears in the writings of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote in his journal for January 1826: ‘The watches of the night pass wearily when disturbed by fruitless regrets.’
Rhymesache, awake, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wideawake wake2 /weɪk /nounA trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.The reason given for this crash was that the aircraft flew into the wake of another aircraft, and the pilot lost control of it....- Whether it's cruising through a wake or throwing an anchor, according to him I do it all wrong.
- The speedboat kicked up a huge wave of water in its wake.
Synonyms backwash, wash, slipstream, turbulence; trail, path, track PhrasesOriginLate 15th century (denoting a track made by a person or thing): probably via Middle Low German from Old Norse vǫk, vaka 'hole or opening in ice'. |