awake
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English awaken, from Old English awacan, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan (wake).
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[edit] Adjective
awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)
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- (conscious): conscious, lucid, wide awake
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- (conscious): asleep, unconscious
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conscious
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[edit] Verb
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or awaked, past participle awoken or awaked)
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
- Than the good man awaked Sir Galahad and bade him aryse [...].
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
- (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
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- (to gain consciousness): fall asleep
[edit] Translations
to gain consciousness
to cause someone to stop sleeping
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to excite something latent
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- “awake” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- "awake" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
- awake in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913