Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To rouse from sleep; waken.
- intransitive verb To make aware of.
- intransitive verb To stir up (memories, for example).
- intransitive verb To wake up.
- intransitive verb To become alert.
- intransitive verb To become aware or cognizant.
- adjective Completely conscious; not in a state of sleep.
- adjective Fully alert; attuned. synonym: aware.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Roused from sleep; not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.
- To cease to sleep; come out of a state of natural sleep.
- To come into being or action as if from sleep.
- To bestir or rouse one's self from a state resembling sleep; emerge from a state of inaction; be invigorated with new life; become alive: as, to
awake from sloth; to awake to the consciousness of a great loss. - To be or remain awake; watch.
- To arouse from sleep.
- To arouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupor, or inaction; put into action or new life: as, to
awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. - Synonyms To wake, excite, stir up, call forth, stimulate, spur (up).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
- transitive verb To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
- transitive verb To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up
- adjective Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
asleep ;conscious . - adjective by extension
Alert ,aware . - verb intransitive To become
conscious after havingslept . - verb transitive To cause (somebody) to stop
sleeping . - verb transitive to
excite or tostir up somethinglatent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
- adjective mentally perceptive and responsive
- verb stop sleeping
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I use the term awake here instead of the more commonly used word, enlightened.
Buddhism and Subpersonalities William Harryman 2007
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I told my older sister about it, and found she too had what we call awake nightmares.
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
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She remained quiet, for she had learned the hypersensitiveness induced by drink and was fastidiously careful not to hurt him even with the knowledge that she had lain awake for him.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
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King was such a right accorded, and, as the King had early learned, to break Hardman Pool's siesta was to gain awake a very irritable and grumpy Hardman Pool who would talk straight from the shoulder and say unpleasant but true things that no king would care to hear.
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To become more awake is to be honest about all that is in us.
Carol Smaldino: Rally to Restore Sanity is Political. So Is Our National Insanity. Carol Smaldino 2010
oroboros commented on the word awake
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 Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
First stanza of Edward J. FitzGerald's first translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Here's the fifth version:
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and
strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
January 3, 2007