awake — ozdic

Collocations

10

1

(adj.)

VERBS

be, lie

She was awake all night worrying about her exam results.

come, jerk

She jerked awake at the sound of breaking glass in the middle of the night.

keep, remain, stay

The coffee helped me remain awake during the long night shift.

jerk sb, jolt sb, nudge sb, shake sb

My mother nudged me awake when my alarm didn't go off this morning.

keep sb

The bright light from the street kept him awake all night.

ADV

fully, wide

The alarm clock rang at 6 AM and I was fully awake within seconds.

hardly, only half

When the alarm went off, she was hardly awake and couldn't remember where she was.

still

My grandmother was still awake at midnight, reading her favorite mystery novel in bed.

2

(verb.)

ADV

early, late

He woke up late on Saturday and missed his morning class.

PREP

from

She woke up from a nightmare in the middle of the night.

Definitions

adj

1

Not asleep; conscious.

By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

2

Alert, aware.

They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.

verb

1

To become conscious after having slept.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

2

To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold

[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...

3

To make aware of something.

4

To excite or to stir up something latent.

5

To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — stop sleeping

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

wide awake

Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.

"They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.

Example Bank

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01

By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

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02

They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

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03

The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.

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04

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

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05

Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman th

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[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, awake is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.