awake
- 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 by to): She awoke to the realities of life.
- waking; not sleeping.
- vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.
Origin of awake
Examples from the Web for awaked
Historical Examples
You must be awaked to the affairs of the world—especially such an affair as this.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope
At last there came an answer, as though the speaker had just awaked.
The Young MountaineersCharles Egbert Craddock
Frequently after awaking I was distinctly aware of what movements of hers had awaked me.
The Story of the MindJames Mark Baldwin
Perhaps it was the noise that had awaked him; and he was just in the act of hastening forward to the rescue.
BruinMayne Reid
The dog had not awaked until the first cry of François roused him.
The Boy HuntersCaptain Mayne Reid
awake
- 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)
- not sleeping
- (sometimes foll by to) lively or alert
Word Origin
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Word Origin and History for awaked
awake
v.
a merger of two Middle English verbs: 1. awaken, from Old English awæcnan (earlier onwæcnan; strong, past tense awoc, past participle awacen) "to awake, arise, originate," from a "on" + wacan "to arise, become awake" (see wake (v.)); and 2. awakien, from Old English awacian (weak, past participle awacode) "to awaken, revive; arise; originate, spring from," from a "on" (see a (2)) + wacian "to be awake, remain awake, watch" (see watch (v.)).
Both originally were intransitive only; the transitive sense being expressed by Middle English awecchen (from Old English aweccan) until later Middle English. In Modern English, the tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense and past participle (awoke, awoken) to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete (see wake (v.); also cf. awaken).
awake
adj.
"not asleep," c.1300, shortened from awaken, past participle of Old English awæcnan (see awaken).