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adjective

Awake adj. Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. "Before whom awake I stood." "She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep." "He was awake to the danger."

verb

Awake v. t. (past awoke; past part. awoken; pres. part. awaking)

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. "Where morning's earliest ray... awake her." "And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish."

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." "It way awake my bounty further." "No sunny gleam awakes the trees."

Awake v. i. (past awoke; past part. awoken; pres. part. awaking) 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." "Awake to righteousness, and sin not."

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Etymology of 'Awake'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Awake" Quotes from Famous Books

... in some way on finding herself awake again, or perhaps from having fallen so soundly asleep in hands like mine, for she called aloud first for "Dinah," then, repeatedly, on "Miriam," both without effect. In a few moments after these appeals ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... an hour ago. She is a heavy sleeper; even the prospect of a visit from burglars would not keep her awake as long as the prospect was only a suspicion. She is a very brave lady; my aunt ...

— Oscar the Detective - Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective • Harlan Page Halsey

... realizing he had tried to speak to Kilby and that no sound had come from his throat. Neither speech nor motion was allowed them here. But he didn't doubt that Kilby was awake, or that Santin and Rane Rellis were in the farther chairs, though he hadn't seen either of them clearly. Their captors had given them a brief glimpse of one another, perhaps to let them know all had been caught. Then, as the light ...

— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz

... should be easy—especially as Hubbo is on the next sloop, which screens the subahdar's from the rest. It is out of speaking distance from the fort, too—another piece of luck for us. I shall think things over in the night, Hossain; be sure to wake me, if I am not awake, at least a gharri {half an hour} ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... 'Awake, my love, disclose thy radiant eyes! Arise, my wife, my beauteous lady, rise! Hear how the doves with pensive notes complain, And in soft murmurs tell the trees their pain: The winter's past; the clouds and tempests fly; The sun adorns ...

— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope

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