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awake
/əˈweɪk/
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What does awake mean?
adjective
- Not asleep; conscious.
- (figuratively) Alert, aware.
verb
- To become conscious after having slept.
More meanings (7)
verb
- To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- To make aware of something.
- To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”).
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈweɪk/
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“I love her best when she is asleep and better still when she is awake,” Bertha Shirley had written in the postscript.
It has no use for your help, no use for your guidance, and never uses either, whether you be asleep or awake.
More book examples (3)
I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
She had done all the thinking which was necessary after Robert went away, when she lay awake upon the sofa till morning.