awake
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English awaken or awakien, from Old English awacan or awacian, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan or wacian. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)
- Not asleep; conscious.
- Synonym: conscious, lucid, wide awake
- Synonym: asleep, unconscious
- (figuratively, by extension) Alert, aware.
- They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
conscious
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alert, aware
Verb[edit]
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- Synonyms: awaken, wake up
- Antonym: fall asleep
- Salvador Dalí (1904-1989):
- Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- 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
- 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- [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...
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892)
- The national spirit again awoke.
- Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 34
- Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to gain consciousness
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to cause someone to stop sleeping
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to excite something latent
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “awake” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- awake in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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