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awake
[uh-weyk]
verb (used with or without object)
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 byto ).
She awoke to the realities of life.
adjective
waking; not sleeping.
vigilant; alert.
They were awake to the danger.
awake
/ əˈweɪk /
verb
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)
adjective
not sleeping
(sometimes foll by to) lively or alert
Other Word Forms
- awakeable adjective
- half-awake adjective
- reawake verb
- unawake adjective
- unawakeable adjective
- unawaked adjective
- unawaking adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of awake1
Example Sentences
“It’s been cruising along for a while, magnificently, and every now and then, the market just slams the brakes to make sure the passengers are still awake.”
"They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep - 'Oh, you're awake?' - with a knife in her hand," he writes.
"That is the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night," she said.
That was apparent from the Second’s opening notes, in which trembling violins and violas sound as if startled awake, ushering in cellos and basses who have begun moving the furniture.
“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’” he writes.
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