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
He may be asleep now, and even were he awake what if he would rather kill his own goats?” Bagheera, who did not know much about Kaa, was naturally suspicious.
Teddy’s mother and father came in, the last thing, to look at their boy, and Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow.
“Now,” he said, when he awoke, “I will go back to the house.
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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