awake
/əˈweɪk/ verb C2- To become conscious after having slept.
- To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- To make aware of something.
- To excite or to stir up something latent.
- To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- 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.
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possible effects or results.”). · It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”). · this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.
He/she/it awakes · Past awoke · Past participle awoken · -ing form awaking
Verb forms
- Base form
- awake
- He/she/it
- awakes
- Past
- awoke
- Past participle
- awoken
- -ing form
- awaking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which had been the herald of her own death.
IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue sky.
When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.
I used to lie awake at nights and imagine things like that, because I didn’t have time in the day.
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