wake

(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

I woke up at four o'clock this morning.

How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.

(often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.

And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, […]

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.

Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.

To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

and gentle Aires due at thir hour To fan the Earth now wak'd,

Then wake, my soul, to high desires, And earlier light thine altar fires: […]

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured^([sic]) to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]

A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]

The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light.

The wood nymphs, deckt with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.

A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued

1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.

And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.

The act of waking, or state of being awake.

Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.

Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.

A number of vultures assembled together.

The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.

The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.

The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.

The area behind a moving person or object.

The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake.

This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.

The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.