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- Dictionarywake/weɪk/
verb
- 1. emerge or cause to emerge from sleep; stop sleeping: "she woke up feeling better" Similar Opposite
- 2. hold a vigil beside (someone who has died): dialect Irish, North American "we waked Jim last night"
noun
- 1. a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances: "he was attending a friend's wake"
- 2. an annual festival and holiday held in some parts of northern England, originally one held in a rural parish on the feast day of the patron saint of the church: "his workers absented themselves for the local wakes"
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to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping: Did you wake at all during the night? Please wake me early tomorrow. I woke up with a headache. Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me out of/from a bad dream. Synonyms. awake literary. awaken literary. bestir yourself formal or humorous. rouse. See also. wake (someone) up (STOP SLEEPING)
1. : to stand watch over (someone or something) especially : to hold a wake over. 2. a. : to rouse from or as if from sleep : awake, wake up. Something woke her in the middle of the night. b. : stir, excite. an experience that woke old feelings. c. : to arouse conscious interest in : alert usually used with to.
Wake definition: to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).. See examples of WAKE used in a sentence.
A1. to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping: Did you wake at all during the night? Please wake me early tomorrow. I woke up with a headache. Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me out of/from a bad dream. Synonyms. awake literary. awaken literary. bestir yourself formal or humorous. rouse. See also.
When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep.
verb. arouse or excite feelings and passions. synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up. see more.
1. To cause to come out of sleep; awaken. 2. To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities. 3. To make aware; alert or enlighten: The report woke me to the facts of the matter. n. 1. A gathering of people in the presence of the body of a deceased person in order to honor the person and console one another.
wake. noun. uk / weɪk / us. in the wake of sth. after something has happened, and often because it has happened: Airport security was extra tight in the wake of last week's bomb attacks.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English wake wake 1 / weɪk / S2 W3 (also wake up) verb (past tense woke / wəʊk $ woʊk /, past participle woken / ˈwəʊkən $ ˈwoʊ-/) [intransitive, transitive] WAKE UP/GET UP to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping When she woke, the sun was streaming through the windows.
1. When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep. [...] 2. The wake of a boat or other object moving in the water is the track of waves it makes behind it as it moves through the water. [...] 3. A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral. [...] More.
