awake

UK /əˈweɪk/ US /əˈweɪk/
verb 5adj 2

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.

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