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verb

Wake v. t. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)

1.

To rouse from sleep; to awake. "The angel... came again and waked me."

2.

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." "Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage." "Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm."

3.

To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. "To second life Waked in the renovation of the just."

4.

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

Wake v. i. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)

1.

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. "The father waketh for the daughter." "Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps." "I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it."

2.

To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels."

3.

To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; often with up. "He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology."

4.

To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. "Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked." "Then wake, my soul, to high desires."

noun

Waking n.

1.

The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

2.

A watch; a watching. (Obs.) "Bodily pain... standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." "In the fourth waking of the night."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Waking" Quotes from Famous Books

... in their beds, Prove so unto you; may no discontent Grow 'twixt your Love and you; but if there do, Enquire of me, and I will guide your moan, Teach you an artificial way to grieve, To keep your sorrow waking; love your Lord No worse than I; but if you love so well, Alas, you may displease him, so did I. This is the last time you shall look on me: Ladies farewel; as soon as I am dead, Come all and watch one night about my Hearse; Bring each a mournful story and a tear ...

— The Maids Tragedy • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... you say: Take days for repetition, stretch your hands For mocked renewal of familiar things: The beaten path, the chair beside the window, The crowded street, the task, the accustomed sleep, And waking to the task, or many springs Of lifted cloud, blue water, flowering fields— The prison-house grows close no less, the feast A place of memory sick for senses dulled Down to the dusty end where pitiful Time ...

— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke

... seldom stops to think what she owes to her husband's mother. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, the man she loves was born. Since then there has been no time, sleeping or waking, when he has not been in the thoughts of the mother who has sought to do her best by him. She gave her life wholly to the demands of her child, ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... They exaggerated the dangers to which the constitution of their church would be exposed from a bench of bishops, and a parliament of episcopalians. This consideration alarmed the presbyterian ministers to such a degree, that they employed all their power and credit in waking the resentment of their hearers against the treaty, which produced an universal ferment among all ranks of people. Even the most rigid puritans joined the cavaliers in expressing their detestation of the union; and laying aside their mutual animosities, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... thou must be waking— Now is breaking O'er the earth another day. Come to Him who made this splendour See thou render All thy feeble ...

— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold

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