awake
IPA: ʌwˈeɪk
verb
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- (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.
adjective
- Not asleep; conscious.
- (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.
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Examples of "awake" in Sentences
- The cackle kept them awake.
- He is awake by the sound of rustling.
- He awake because of the jingle sound.
- It is the state of the awake neocortex.
- People were awake by the sound of toot.
- They were awake in the middle of the night.
- He awakes but, stupefied with wine, is helpless.
- The greatest number of people are awake in the evening.
- To be awake is to experience wakefulness, the state of being conscious.
- They are apparently nocturnal, being asleep in the day and awake in the night.