wake
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.Examples: "I woke up at four o'clock this morning."; "How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness."Synonyms: get up, stirintransitive
2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.Examples: "The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream."; "And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, […]"Synonyms: awaken, rouse, arouse, awake, awaken, bring round, cry, knock uptransitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.Examples: "Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint."; "Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm."Synonyms: awaken, rouse, abet, actuate, goose, send, sting, bring aboutfigurativelytransitive
4. (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.Examples: "and gentle Aires due at thir hour To fan the Earth now wak'd,"; "Then wake, my soul, to high desires, And earlier light thine altar fires: […]"Synonyms: quicken, start, startlefigurativelyintransitive
5. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watchExamples: "Command unto the guards that they diligently wake."Synonyms: bewake, invigilate, keep watch, watchobsolete
6. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.Examples: "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.Examples: "Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep."; "Singing her flatteries to my morning wake."; "After a few weeks of age, longer periods of sleep and wake are seen […]"obsoleteoftenpoetic
2. (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.Examples: "1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England."; "And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer."Church-of-Englandhistorical
3. (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.collective
noun (English)
1. (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
2. (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
3. (figuratively) The area behind something or somebody rapidly-movingExamples: "The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake."; "This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions."; "Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels."figuratively
Definition source: Wiktionary