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Webster 1913 Edition


Awake

A-wake′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Awoke
,
Awaked
;
p. p.
Awaked
; (Obs.)
Awaken
,
Awoken
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Awaking
. The form
Awoke
is sometimes used as a
p. p.
]
[AS.
āwæcnan
, v. i. (imp.
awōc
), and
āwacian
, v. i. (imp.
awacode
). See
Awaken
,
Wake
.]
1.
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning’s earliest ray . . .
awake
her.
Tennyson.
And his disciples came to him, and
awoke
him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
Matt. viii. 25.
2.
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;
as, to
awake
the dead; to
awake
the dormant faculties.
I was soon
awaked
from this disagreeable reverie.
Goldsmith.
It way
awake
my bounty further.
Shakespeare
No sunny gleam
awake
s the trees.
Keble.

A-wake′

,
Verb.
I.
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.
The national spirit again
awoke
.
Freeman.
Awake
to righteousness, and sin not.
1 Cor. xv. 34.

A-wake′

,
Adj.
[From
awaken
, old p. p. of
awake
.]
Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Before whom
awake
I stood.
Milton.
She still beheld,
Now wide
awake
, the vision of her sleep.
Keats.
He was
awake
to the danger.
Froude.

Webster 1828 Edition


Awake

AWA'KE

,
Verb.
T.
pret. awoke, awaked; pp. awaked. [The L. vigilo seems to be formed on this root. See Wake.]
1.
To rouse from asleep.
I go that I may awake him out of sleep. John 11.
2.
To excite from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

AWA'KE

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep.
Jacob awaked out of sleep. Gen. 28.
2.
To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. Zech. 13.
3.
To rouse from spiritual sleep.
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph. 5.
Awake to righteousness. 1Cor. 15.
4.
To rise from the dead. Job 14.

AWA'KE

,
Adj.
Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.

Definition 2024


awake

awake

English

Adjective

awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)

  1. Not asleep; conscious.
  2. (by extension) Alert, aware.

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Verb

awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or awaked or (rare) awoke)

  1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
    • Salvador Dalí (1904-1989):
      Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
  2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
      Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
  3. (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

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References

  • awake” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
  • awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  • "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
  • awake in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913