awake

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈweɪk/ (Canada) IPA(key): /əˈweːk/ (Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): [əˈweːk], [əˈwɛːk] Rhymes: -eɪk === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Adjective ==== awake (not comparable) (predicative only) Not asleep; conscious. Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake; see also Thesaurus:awake Antonyms: asleep, unconscious; see also Thesaurus:asleep (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware. Synonyms: wary, woke; see also Thesaurus:vigilant Antonyms: heedless, oblivious ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- +‎ wake. ==== Verb ==== awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken) (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept. Synonyms: awaken, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake Antonyms: fall asleep; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken Antonym: put to sleep (transitive) To make aware of something. (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy. (intransitive, figurative) 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. ===== Usage notes ===== For many speakers, this verb is commonly conflated with awaken (and, in such cases, lends some conjugational elements to it). See the usage notes at awaken for more details. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== awake to awaken wake wake up woke === References === “awake”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN. “awake”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “awake”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “awake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.