[weyk] 
verb, waked or woke, waked or wok⋅en, wak⋅ing, noun | 1. | to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often fol. by up). |
| 2. | to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken: to wake from one's daydreams. |
| 3. | to become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken: to wake to the true situation. |
| 4. | to be or continue to be awake: Whether I wake or sleep, I think of you. |
| 5. | to remain awake for some purpose, duty, etc.: I will wake until you return. |
| 6. | to hold a wake over a corpse. |
| 7. | to keep watch or vigil. |
| 8. | to rouse from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often fol. by up): Don't wake me for breakfast. Wake me up at six o'clock. |
| 9. | to rouse from lethargy, apathy, ignorance, etc. (often fol. by up): The tragedy woke us up to the need for safety precautions. |
| 10. | to hold a wake for or over (a dead person). |
| 11. | to keep watch or vigil over. |
| 12. | a watching, or a watch kept, esp. for some solemn or ceremonial purpose. |
| 13. | a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial, sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking. |
| 14. | a local annual festival in England, formerly held in honor of the patron saint or on the anniversary of the dedication of a church but now usually having little or no religious significance. |
| 15. | the state of being awake: between sleep and wake. |
[weyk] | 1. | the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness. |
| 2. | the path or course of anything that has passed or preceded: The tornado left ruin in its wake. |
| 3. | in the wake of,
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| wake 1 (wāk) v. woke (wōk) or waked (wākt), waked or wok·en (wō'kən), wak·ing, wakes v. intr.
[Middle English wakien, waken, from Old English wacan, to wake up and wacian, to be awake, keep watch; see weg- in Indo-European roots.] wak'er n. Usage Note: The pairs wake, waken and awake, awaken have formed a bewildering array since the Middle English period. All four words have similar meanings, though there are some differences in use. Only wake is used in the sense "to be awake," as in expressions like waking (not wakening) and sleeping, every waking hour. Wake is also more common than waken when used together with up, and awake and awaken never occur in this context: She woke up (rarely wakened up; never awakened up or awoke up). Some writers have suggested that waken should be used only transitively (as in The alarm wakened him) and awaken only intransitively (as in He awakened at dawn), but there is ample literary precedent for usages such as He wakened early and They did not awaken her. In figurative senses awake and awaken are more prevalent: With the governor's defeat the party awoke to the strength of the opposition to its position on abortion. The scent of the gardenias awakened my memory of his unexpected appearance that afternoon years ago. Regional American dialects vary in the way that certain verbs form their principal parts. Northern dialects seem to favor forms that change the internal vowel in the verb—hence dove for the past tense of dive, and woke for wake: They woke up with a start. Southern dialects, on the other hand, tend to prefer forms that add an -ed to form the past tense and the past participle of these same verbs: The children dived into the swimming hole. The baby waked up early. |
| wake 2 (wāk) n.
[Possibly from Middle Low German, hole in the ice, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse vök.] |
A funeral celebration, common in Ireland, at which the participants stay awake all night keeping watch over the body of the dead person before burial. A wake traditionally involves a good deal of feasting and drinking.
