wake¹ /wāk/

1. To be or remain awake, or active or vigilant
2. To keep watch or vigil, or pass the night in prayer
3. To hold a wake
4. To awake or be roused from sleep or from indifference, day-dreaming, etc (often with up)
5. To become animated or lively
6. To be stirred up, aroused
7. To hold a late revel (obsolete)

1. To rouse from sleep
2. To keep vigil over (obsolete or dialect)
3. To excite, stir up (eg feelings, echoes)
4. To disturb (eg the night or silence) with noise
5. To animate
6. To reanimate, revive

1. The feast of the dedication of a church, formerly kept by watching all night
2. A festival
3. (usu in pl) an annual holiday esp in N England, as in Wakes Week (dialect)
4. A watch or vigil beside a corpse, sometimes with revelry
5. The act or state of waking (obsolete except in sleep and/or wake, wake and/or dream)
6. A serenade (James Hogg)

wakeˈful adjective

1. Not asleep
2. Unable or indisposed to sleep
3. Vigilant, watchful
4. Waking
5. Awakening or rousing (Milton)

wakeˈfully adverb

wakeˈfulness noun

wakeˈless adjective

(of sleep) sound, undisturbed

wāˈker noun

Someone who wakes

wāˈking noun adjective

1. That wakes, keeps watch, or is vigilant
2. That rouses or becomes awake
3. Passed, or experienced, in the waking state

wakeˈman noun (archaic)

A watchman

wakeˈrife /-rif or -rīf/ adjective (Scot)

1. Wakeful
2. Vigilant

wakeˈ-robin noun

1. The cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum
2. The spotted orchis, Orchis maculata
3. Applied to various other flowers, esp, in the USA, to any of the genus Trillium

wakeˈ-up noun (Aust informal)

A wide-awake person, esp in be a wake-up to to be alert to

wakeˈ-up call noun

1. A prearranged telephone call to inform someone that it is time to get up
2. Something that makes people aware of an unsatisfactory, dangerous, or difficult situation (informal)

waking hours plural noun

The period of the day during which one is normally awake

wake a (or the) night

To remain awake, or be up and about, all night

wake to or wake up to

To become or make conscious of, alive to

wake up and smell the coffee

To become aware of the reality of the situation

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