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awake

[uh-weyk]
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verb (used with or without object), a·woke or a·waked, a·woke or a·waked or a·wo·ken, a·wak·ing.

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.

adjective

waking; not sleeping.
vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.

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RELATED WORDS

vigilant, attentive, cognizant, alive, aware, rouse, awaken, knowing, waking, excited, roused, aroused, call, stir, wake, arise, activate, enliven, incite, excite

Origin of awake

before 1000; Middle English awaken, Old English awacen, past participle of awæcnan; see a1, waken
Related formsa·wake·a·ble, adjectivehalf-a·wake, adjectivere·a·wake, verb, re·a·woke or re·a·waked, re·a·wak·ing.un·a·wake, adjectiveun·a·wake·a·ble, adjectiveun·a·waked, adjectiveun·a·wak·ing, adjective
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Examples from the Web for awaked

Historical Examples of awaked

  • You must be awaked to the affairs of the world—especially such an affair as this.

    Kept in the Dark

    Anthony Trollope

  • At last there came an answer, as though the speaker had just awaked.

    The Young Mountaineers

    Charles Egbert Craddock

  • Frequently after awaking I was distinctly aware of what movements of hers had awaked me.

    The Story of the Mind

    James Mark Baldwin

  • Perhaps it was the noise that had awaked him; and he was just in the act of hastening forward to the rescue.

    Bruin

    Mayne Reid

  • The dog had not awaked until the first cry of François roused him.

    The Boy Hunters

    Captain Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for awaked

awake

verb awakes, awaking, awoke, awaked, awoken or awaked

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 (postpositive)

not sleeping
(sometimes foll by to) lively or alert

Word Origin for awake

Old English awacian, awacan; see wake 1

xref

See wake 1
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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).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper