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Wake   /weɪk/   Listen
Wake

verb
(past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)
1.
Be awake, be alert, be there.
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken.
3.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"
4.
Make aware of.
5.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."
noun
1.
The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).  Synonyms: aftermath, backwash.  "In the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
2.
An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii.  Synonym: Wake Island.
3.
The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward.  Synonym: backwash.
4.
A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial.  Synonym: viewing.



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"Wake" Quotes from Famous Books



... cherishing mother of this work was helping, as occasion required; both she and her deaconess going from one row of seats to another, speaking a friendly word here, bestowing a greeting or answering an inquiry there, and unconsciously followed by a wake of happiness everywhere. As the wounded soldiers in Crimean hospitals turned to kiss the shadow of Florence Nightingale passing them, there was surely gladness in hearts and on faces here that would have counted it a privilege to kiss the place ...
— In and Around Berlin • Minerva Brace Norton
... which almost merge with waking thought to creations strangely remote and primitive. When I dream that Goethe is a guest at my home and I am trying to ask him in regard to Faust, Wilhelm Meister and Mignon,—when after reading of x-rays, ether waves and electrons wake with the thought, "To solve the problem of matter would prove materialism,"—when I dream that I am conversing with a conservative friend who says that he does not like new religions and I reply that Moses and Jesus were new once, it is plain that a different stratum of mind is operative than ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... to-morrow. I shall wake up and feel as if all this had been a dream. When shall I see you ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... surge closed o'er The cloven track of keel and oar, But while she fled, there drove along, Fast in her wake, a mighty throng— Athirst for blood, athirst for war, Forward in fell pursuit they sprung, Then leapt on Simois' bank ashore, The leafy coppices among— No rangers, they, of wood and field, But huntsmen ...
— The House of Atreus • AEschylus
... National Democratic Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (UDPT); NDMT was led by former Foreign Minister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the wake of the 25 November 2002 attack on President ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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