adjective, verb
adjective [notbeforenoun] not asleep (especially immediately before or after sleeping):
to be half / fully awake * to be wide awake (= fully awake) * I was still awake when he came to bed. * The noise was keeping everyone awake. * I was finding it hard to stay awake. * He lies awake at night worrying about his job. * She was awake (= not unconscious) during the operation on her leg.
verb (awoke ) (formal)
1 ~ (sb) (from / to sth) to wake up; to make sb wake up:
[V] I awoke from a deep sleep. * The girls awoke to the sound of rain rattling on the windows. * [Vtoinf] He awoke to find her gone. * [VN] Her voice awoke the sleeping child.
2 if an emotion awakes or sth awakes an emotion, you start to feel that emotion:
[VN] His speech is bound to awake old fears and hostilities. [also V]
PHRASALVERBS
awake to sth to become aware of sth and its possible effects or results:
It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
compareWAKE
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WHICHWORD?
awake / awaken / wake up / waken
Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: The children woke me up. * I was woken (up) by the telephone.
The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.
Awake is also an adjective: I was awake half the night worrying. * Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Look also at ASLEEP and the verb SLEEP.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for awake is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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