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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