awake
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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to wake up; rouse from sleep: I awoke at six with a feeling of dread.
2.
to rouse to action; become active: His flagging interest awoke.
3.
to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant (often followed by to ): She awoke to the realities of life.
adjective
4.
waking; not sleeping.
5.
vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
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Awake
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| —vb , awakes, awaking, awoke, awaked, awoken, awaked | |
| 1. | to emerge or rouse from sleep; wake |
| 2. | to become or cause to become alert |
| 3. | ( |
| 4. | (tr) Also: awaken to arouse (feelings, etc) or cause to remember (memories, etc) |
| —adj | |
| 5. | not sleeping |
| 6. | ( |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
awake
a merger of two M.E. verbs: 1. awaken, from O.E. awæcnan (earlier onwæcnan; strong, past tense awoc, pp. awacen) "to awake, arise," from a "on" + wacan "to arise, become awake" (see wake (v.)); and 2. awakien, from O.E. awacian (weak, p.p. awacode), from a "on"
+ wacian "to be awake, remain awake, watch" (see watch (v.)). Both were originally intrans. only; the trans. sense being expressed by M.E. awecchen (from O.E. aweccan) until later M.E. In Mod.Eng., the tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense and pp. (awoke, awoken) to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete (see wake; also cf. awaken).
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| AWAKE Alert, Well, and Keeping Energetic Network |
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Example sentences
While the rest of us sleep, she stays awake and watches.
Fruit flies respond to caffeine by staying awake longer and to antihistamines by going to sleep earlier.
Gauge your arrival time and plan to either sleep or stay awake on the plane accordingly.
All the patients were awake and alert, but with a range of responsiveness.
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