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Definition of 'awake'English
Adjective
( en-adj) (predicative only)
Not asleep; conscious.
(by extension) Alert, aware.
Synonyms
* (conscious) conscious, lucid, wide awake
Antonyms
* (conscious) asleep, unconscious
Verb
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*: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
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Synonyms
* (to gain consciousness) awaken, wake up,
Antonyms
* (to gain consciousness) fall asleep
Derived terms
* (l)
See also
* awake to
* awaken
* wake
* wake up
Similar to 'awake'ache, awoke, ague, ackee, akee, achee, aggie, aquae, asse, aske, aace, agee, ajee
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