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wake1
verb (woke , woken , waking )
1 (also wake someone up or wake up) tr & intr
a to rouse or be roused from sleep;
b to stir or be stirred out of a state of inactivity or lethargy, etc.
2 (often wake up or wake someone up to something) tr & intr to become or make them aware of (a fact, circumstance or situation, etc).
3 intr to stay awake at night; to keep watch or stay vigilant.
4 to disturb (eg a night or silence, etc) with noise.
noun
1 a watch or vigil kept beside a corpse.
2 dialect an annual holiday.
3 hist the feast of the dedication of a church, formerly kept by watching all night.
[Anglo-Saxon wacan to become awake, and wacian to stay awake]
waking noun , adjective .
verb (woke , woken , waking )
1 (also wake someone up or wake up) tr & intr
a to rouse or be roused from sleep;
b to stir or be stirred out of a state of inactivity or lethargy, etc.
2 (often wake up or wake someone up to something) tr & intr to become or make them aware of (a fact, circumstance or situation, etc).
3 intr to stay awake at night; to keep watch or stay vigilant.
4 to disturb (eg a night or silence, etc) with noise.
noun
1 a watch or vigil kept beside a corpse.
2 dialect an annual holiday.
3 hist the feast of the dedication of a church, formerly kept by watching all night.
[Anglo-Saxon wacan to become awake, and wacian to stay awake]
waking noun , adjective .
| wake, waken, awake, awaken These four verbs are virtually synonymous, with wake the most commonly used. All can be used with or without an object; all can be used both in the literal sense -to rouse from sleep- and in the figurative sense -to arouse or provoke (feelings)-. The only difference between them is that awake and awaken are never followed by up. |
wake2
noun a trail of disturbed water left by a ship, or of disturbed air left by an aircraft.
[16c: from Norse vök a hole or channel in the ice]
in one's wake wherever one has been.
in the wake of someone or something coming after them or it; resulting from them or it.
noun a trail of disturbed water left by a ship, or of disturbed air left by an aircraft.
[16c: from Norse vök a hole or channel in the ice]
in one's wake wherever one has been.
in the wake of someone or something coming after them or it; resulting from them or it.
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