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- DictionaryWake/wāk/
verb
- 1. emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping: "she woke up feeling better"
- 2. hold a vigil beside (someone who has died): dialect Irish, North American "we waked Jim last night"
noun
- 1. a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances including eating and drinking: "he was attending a friend's wake"
- 2. (in some parts of the UK) a festival and holiday held annually in a rural parish, originally on the feast day of the patron saint of the church: "his workers absented themselves for the local wakes"
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