awake

[A*wake·]

When you're awake, you're conscious and aware of your surroundings. When you're not awake, you're asleep. If you are reading this, you are indeed awake.

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To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken.

Verb
stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"


v. t.
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

v. t.
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

v. i.
To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

a.
Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.


Awake

A*wake" , v. t. [imp. Awoke , Awaked ; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. 'bew'91cnan, v. i. (imp. awc), and 'bewacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.] 1. To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
It way awake my bounty further.
No sunny gleam awakes the trees.

Awake

A*wake" , v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
The national spirit again awoke.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.

Awake

A*wake", a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Before whom awake I stood.
She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep.
He was awake to the danger.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken.

To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

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Usage Examples

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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