awake
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-?
Proto-Germanic *uz-
Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-
Old English ar-
Old English ā-
Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der.
Proto-Germanic *wakaną
Proto-West Germanic *wakan
Old English wacan
Old English āwacan
Middle English awaken
Middle English awake
English awake
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Inflected forms:
form: awakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: awaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: awoke
pos: verb
tags: past
form: awaked
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: awoken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: awaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: awoke
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: awaken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
Senses:
gloss: Not asleep; conscious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
examples: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
gloss: Alert, aware.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
not-comparable
predicative
examples: They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
‘Sammy,’ whispered Mr. Weller, looking cautiously round; ‘[…] Me and a cab’net-maker has dewised a plan for gettin’ him out. A pianner, Samivel—a pianner!’ […]
‘And wot ‘ud be the good o’ that?’ said Sam.
‘Let him send to my friend, the cabinet-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy,’ replied Mr. Weller. ‘Are you avake, now?’
‘No,’ rejoined Sam.
‘There ain’t no vurks in it,’ whispered his father. ‘It ‘ull hold him easy, vith his hat and shoes on, and breathe through the legs, vich his holler. […]
And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.
gloss: To become conscious after having slept.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
predicative
examples: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
gloss: To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: predicative
transitive
examples: 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
[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...
gloss: To make aware of something.
pos: verb
tags: predicative
transitive
gloss: To excite or to stir up something latent.
pos: verb
tags: predicative
transitive
gloss: To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
predicative
transitive
gloss: To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
predicative
examples: 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
The national spirit again awoke.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
Synonyms: alert
awake
caffeinated
conscious
invigorated
invigorating
lively
wakeful
wakesome
woke
Antonyms: asleep
unconscious
Related words: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
up and at 'em
vigilant
wake
wakefulness
awake to
awaken
wake up
woke
Derived words: awakeness
be awake
broad awake
half-awake
nonawake
unawake
wide-awake
wideawake
awakable
awaker
reawake
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