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   Wake

   /wāk/

   

   verb

   • 1. emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping: "she woke up feeling better" Similar awakeawakenwaken (up)rousestircome tocome aroundget upget out of bedbestir oneselfget goingcome aliveshow signs of lifeliterary:arisewakenrousearousebring tobring aroundinformal:knock upOpposite sleepfall asleep
   • ▪ become alert to or aware of: "he needs to wake up to reality" Similar realizebecome aware ofbecome conscious ofbecome mindful ofbecome heedful ofbecome alert to
   • ▪ cause (something) to stir or come to life: "it wakes desire in others" Similar evokecall upconjure uprousestirreviveawakenrefreshrenewresuscitaterevivifyrekindlereigniterejuvenatestimulate
   • 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"

   Word Origin Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch.

   Derivatives

   • 1. waker noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   wake: [verb] to be or remain awake. to remain awake on watch especially over a corpse. to stay up late in revelry.

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   Wake definition: to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).. See examples of WAKE used in a sentence.

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   WAKE definition: 1. to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping: 2. the waves that a moving…. Learn more.

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   WAKE meaning: 1. to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping: 2. the waves that a moving…. Learn more.

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   wake to something (formal) They woke to a clear blue sky. I woke to the sound of heavy rain outside. wake from something (formal) She had just woken from a deep sleep. wake up to do something He woke up to find himself alone in the house. wake to do something The woman woke to see the defendant in her bedroom.

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   WAKE meaning: 1. to stop sleeping or to make someone else stop sleeping: 2. after something has happened, and…. Learn more.