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   awake

   /əˈweɪk/

   verb

   • 1. stop sleeping; wake from sleep: "she awoke to find the streets covered in snow" Similar wake (up)awakenstircome tocome roundbestir oneselfshow signs of lifereturn to the land of the livingOpposite fall asleep
   • ▪ cause (someone) to wake from sleep: "my screams awoke my parents" Similar wake (up)awakenwakenrousearouseinformal:give someone a shoutknock up
   • ▪ regain consciousness: "I awoke none the worse for the operation"
   • ▪ become aware of; come to a realization of: "the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem" Similar realizebecome aware ofbecome conscious ofbecome cognizant ofbecome mindful ofinformal:get wise torare:cognize
   • ▪ make or become active again: "there were echoes and scents which awoke some memory in me"

   adjective

   • 1. not asleep: "the noise might keep you awake at night" Similar wakefulsleeplesswide awakeconscioustossing and turningrestlessrestivearchaic:watchfulrare:insomnolentOpposite asleep
   • ▪ aware of: "too few are awake to the dangers" Similar aware ofconscious ofcognizant ofmindful ofsensible ofalive toalert tosensitive toarchaic:ware ofOpposite unawareignorantoblivious

   Word Origin Old Englishāwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (see a-2, wake1).

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   What does awake mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! AWAKE definition: 1. not sleeping: 2. If you are awake to something, you know about it: 3. to stop sleeping or to…. Learn more.

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   What does wake up mean?

   • Wake and wake up are verbs which mean ‘stop sleeping or end someone else’s sleep’. They are used in everyday language. … If I drink coffee late in the day, I can’t sleep and stay awake all night. [ I ] I awoke at 7, as usual. Patients in "minimally conscious states" are awake but have only partial preservation of awareness and responsiveness.

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   What is the difference between awake and awaken?

   • Awake and awaken are two distinct verbs that mean the same thing. In other words, they're synonyms, and in the present tense they each behave the way English verbs typically behave: The cat awakes at dawn. The cat awakens at dawn. Things get trickier in the past tense. Our modern verb awake is the result of the long-ago melding of two older verbs.

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   What is the difference between alive and awake?

   • alive adds to sensible the implication of acute sensitivity to something. awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert. Verb She fell asleep immediately but awoke an hour later. I awoke several times during the night.

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   What is the past tense of Awake?

   • Fortunately awaken (which was originally one of the past tense forms of awake) is simpler. It's a regular verb, which means it has the usual past tense forms: The cat awakened at dawn. The cat was awakened at dawn by a mouse. As if all this weren't complicated enough, awake is also an adjective: Because of the cat, I too am now awake.

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   What does awoke mean?

   • awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert. Verb She fell asleep immediately but awoke an hour later. I awoke several times during the night. The baby awoke from his nap. Rabbi Hecht awoke from his dream and then went to shul for Minchah-Maariv.

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   awake in American English. (əˈweik) (verbawoke or awaked, awoke or awaked or awoken, awaking) transitive verb or intransitive verb. 1. to wake up; rouse from sleep. I awoke at six with a feeling of dread. 2. to rouse to action; become active. His flagging interest awoke.

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   not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead. adjective. mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind". “ awake to the dangers of her situation”. “was now awake to the reality of his predicament”. synonyms: alert, alive. aware, cognisant, cognizant.

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