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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Awake \A*wake"\, v. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Awake \A*wake"\, v. 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. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, 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. --Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Awake \A*wake"\, a. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: awake adj 1: not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [syn: {awake(p)}] [ant: {asleep(p)}] 2: not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert" [syn: {alert}, {awake(p)}] 3: (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: {alert}, {alive(p)}, {awake(p)}] v : stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: {wake up}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come alive}, {waken}] [ant: {fall asleep}]
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