awake
/əˈweɪk/ adjective A1- Not asleep; conscious. · We've lain awake a good many nights worrying about her.
- Alert, aware. · They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
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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.
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.
I used to lie awake at nights and imagine things like that, because I didn’t have time in the day.
I stayed awake nearly a whole night before I invented it.
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