wake (sb) up
— phrasal verb with wake uk/weɪk/us/weɪk/verb [ I or T ] past tense woke or waked, past participle woken or waked also wake up
(STOP SLEEPING)
A1 to (cause to) become conscious after sleeping:
Come on, wake up - breakfast is ready.
He woke himself up with his own snoring!
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- Babysitting is money for old rope if the children don't wake up.
- I gave him a nudge to wake him up.
- I go to sleep on my back but I always wake up in a different position.
- I'm programmed to wake up at seven.
- I woke the others up at six.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- rouse
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- waking
- woken
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(REACT)
to start to react to a situation after a period in which you have done very little, or to make someone start to react to a situation:
Companies need to wake up and pay attention to the public's increasing concern about the environment.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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Reacting and responding