awake
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.
waking; not sleeping.
vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
Origin of awake
1Other 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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How to use awake in a sentence
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 | FortuneTo be woke is, in theory, to be awake to issues of social and racial justice.
Johnson was asleep when she came in, but the physician awoke her easily.
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.
Whenever that rat tried to rest, the scientists spun the table, nudging both rats awake and sometimes pushing them into the water.
Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.
James Patterson Goes Full ‘Fahrenheit 451’ With Burning Book Video | William O’Connor | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the moment suggests to him that if he is awake, then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined.
The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyFinding him awake, he sat by his side and, with the earnestness of a nursery-maid, patted him off to slumber.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeOr rather I suppose I was only half awake; but you seemed to open that door so easily that it quite startled me.
Uncanny Tales | VariousShe slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinShe lay wide awake composing a letter which was nothing like the one which she wrote next day.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
British Dictionary definitions for awake
/ (əˈweɪk) /
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)
not sleeping
(sometimes foll by to) lively or alert
Origin of awake
1awake
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