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a⋅wake

  [uh-weyk] verb, a⋅woke or a⋅waked, a⋅woke or a⋅waked or a⋅wo⋅ken, a⋅wak⋅ing, adjective
Use awake to in a Sentence
–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 fol. by to): She awoke to the realities of life.
–adjective
4. waking; not sleeping.
5. vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME awaken, OE awacen, ptp. of awæcnan; see a 1 , waken

Related forms:
a⋅wake⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History

awake  (v.)
a merger of O.E. awæcnan (past tense awoc, pp. awacen) "awake" (adj.), earlier on-wæcnan; and O.E. awacian (v.) (p.p. awacode). The tendency to restrict the strong past tense and pp. to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection to the transitive has never been fully carried out (see wake).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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