wake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪk/
ipa: /weːk/
homophone: Wake
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: wakes
form: waking
form: woke
form: waked
form: woken
form: waked
form: woke
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wake
form: wake
form: woke
form: waked
form: wake
form: wakest
form: woke
form: waked
form: wokest
form: wakes
form: waketh
form: woke
form: waked
form: wake
form: woke
form: waked
form: wake
form: woke
form: waked
form: wake
form: -
form: waking
form: woken
form: waked
form: woke
Etymology: A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:
* Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
* Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.
Senses: examples: text: I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
text: How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
synonyms: get up
stir
glosses: (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
examples: text: The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
text: And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zechariah 4:1:
synonyms: word: awaken
word: rouse
word: arouse
word: awake
word: awaken
word: bring round
word: cry
word: knock up
word: rouse
word: roust
word: uprouse
word: wake
word: wake up
word: waken
glosses: (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
examples: text: Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake
 My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
ref: 1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People:
synonyms: word: awaken
word: rouse
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
examples: text: and gentle Aires due at thir hour
 To fan the Earth now wak'd,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 93–94:
text: Then wake, my soul, to high desires,
 And earlier light thine altar fires: […]
ref: 1827, [John Keble], “Easter Day”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 146:
synonyms: quicken
start
startle
glosses: To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
examples: text: Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured^([sic]) to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
synonyms: bewake
watch
glosses: To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
examples: text: The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away sleepe;
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 42:9:
text: And oft though wiſdom wake, ſuspicion ſleeps
 At wiſdoms Gate,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 696–697:
text: , Book II, Chapter I
I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
synonyms: stay up
watch
glosses: To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
examples: text: Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
synonyms: bewake
invigilate
keep watch
watch
glosses: To be alert; to keep watch
examples: text: The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
 Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Synonyms: word: abraid
word: arise
word: arouse
word: awake
word: awaken
word: get up
word: rise
word: rouse
word: stir
word: wake
word: wake up
word: waken
Hyponyms: word: disentrance
word: get up with the chickens
word: start
word: come around
word: come round
word: come to
word: come to one's senses
Derived terms: bewake
non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder
wake and bake
wake boat
wakeful
wakeless
wakesome
wake the dead
wake up
wake up one day
Related terms: word: wacken
word: pull an all-nighter
word: rise and shine
word: show a leg
topics: nautical
transport
word: lark
word: owl
word: all-nighter
word: reveille
word: yawn
word: wakefulness
word: enliven