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Wake   /weɪk/   Listen
Wake

verb
(past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)
1.
Be awake, be alert, be there.
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken.
3.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"
4.
Make aware of.
5.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."
noun
1.
The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).  Synonyms: aftermath, backwash.  "In the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
2.
An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii.  Synonym: Wake Island.
3.
The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward.  Synonym: backwash.
4.
A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial.  Synonym: viewing.



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"Wake" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the wake of the porter, uncle and nephew went through the rooms on the ground floor. As happens in all untenanted houses, the damp had wrought terrible havoc. The flooring, worm-eaten, creaked under their feet, the carpets had ...
— The Exploits of Juve - Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantmas" Detective Tales • mile Souvestre and Marcel Allain
... and espying a green baise door on my right I rushed through it, and down a flight of stone steps that led I knew not where. Giving a view-holloa that must have startled every light sleeper in the house, Sir Guy followed close in my wake, dropping the silver candlestick with a most alarming clatter. I saw I had not the speed of him to any great extent, so I dodged into the first empty room I came to, and blowing out my light, resolved to lie there perdue till my ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... Roman law, and modern jurisprudence following in its wake, look upon co-ownership as an exceptional and momentary condition of the rights of property. This view is clearly indicated in the maxim which obtains universally in Western Europe, Nemo in communione potest invitus detineri ("No one can ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
... is a day that I and many others have long wished for, long hoped for, long striven for. * * * A day when the Nation is to commence its real life; or, if it is not the day, it is the dawning of the day; the day is near at hand * * * when the American People are to wake up to the meaning of the sublime truths which their fathers uttered years ago, and which have slumbered, dead-letters, upon the pages of our Constitution, of our Declaration of Independence, and of ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... prosperity of our offspring, as we pray for the guardian care of the Almighty over our Country—we earnestly inquire what shall be done to avert the impending ruin. The efficient cause of our calamities is vigorously increasing in magnitude and potency, while we wake ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various


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