/əˈweɪk/Show Spelled[uh-weyk]Show IPAverb, a·woke or a·waked, a·woke or a·waked or a·wo·ken, a·wak·ing,adjective
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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Awakingis always a great word to know.
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.