awake

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to stop sleeping

   Awake, my child.

2. 2
   adj

   Not asleep; conscious.

   By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

3. 3
   adj

   Alert, aware.

   They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

4. 4
   verb

   To become conscious after having slept.

   Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

5. 5
   verb

   To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   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

6. 6
   verb

   To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

   1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.

7. 7
   adj

   not in a state of sleep

8. 8
   adj

   mentally perceptive and responsive

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).