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Awake
Definitions
- 1 Not asleep; conscious. not-comparable, predicative
"By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben."
- 2 Alert, aware. broadly, figuratively, not-comparable, predicative
"They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales."
- 1 not in a state of sleep; completely conscious wordnet
- 2 mentally perceptive and responsive wordnet
- 1 To become conscious after having slept. intransitive, predicative
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light."
- 2 stop sleeping wordnet
- 3 To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. predicative, transitive
"Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold"
- 4 To make aware of something. predicative, transitive
- 5 To excite or to stir up something latent. predicative, transitive
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- 6 To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy. figuratively, predicative, transitive
- 7 To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy. figuratively, intransitive, predicative
"1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke."
Etymology
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake.
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