awake

Definitions

1. adjective

   Not asleep; conscious.

   Example

   • 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.
   ≈conscious≈lucid≈wide awake≠asleep≠unconscious +18 more
2. adjective

   Alert, aware.

   Examples

   • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
   • The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
   ≈wary≈woke≈alert≈aware≈heedful +14 more
3. verb

   To become conscious after having slept.

   Example

   • 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.
   ≈awaken≈wake up≈abraid≈arise≈arouse +22 more
4. verb

   To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   ≈bring round≈cry≈wake up≈arouse≈awake +11 more
5. verb

   To make aware of something.

6. verb

   To excite or to stir up something latent.

7. verb

   To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

8. verb

   To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

   Examples

   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.
   • Awake to righteousness, and sin not.