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adjective

Awake adj. Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. "Before whom awake I stood." "She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep." "He was awake to the danger."

verb

Awake v. t. (past awoke; past part. awoken; pres. part. awaking)

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. "Where morning's earliest ray... awake her." "And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish."

To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. "I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie." "It way awake my bounty further." "No sunny gleam awakes the trees."

Awake v. i. (past awoke; past part. awoken; pres. part. awaking) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. "The national spirit again awoke." "Awake to righteousness, and sin not."

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Etymology of 'Awake'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Awake" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I know you—Why this confusion? That look of guilt and terror? Is Beverley awake? Or has his wife told tales? The man that dares like You, should have a soul to justify his deeds, and courage to confront accusers. Not with a coward's fear ...

— The Gamester (1753) • Edward Moore

... knowledge of God, and of the Soul hath rendred us thus certain of this rule, it's easie to know; that the extravaganceys which we imagin in our sleep, ought no way to make us doubt of the truth of those thoughts which we have being awake: For if it should happen, that even sleeping we should have a very distinct Idea; as for example, A Geometritian should invent some new demonstration, his sleeping would not hinder it to be true. And for the most ordinary error of our dreames, which consists in that they represent unto us severall ...

— A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason - and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences • Rene Descartes

... not yet thoroughly awake, complied. It was a curious place: a large wall, with a gate in the middle, ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... solution. Flights of genius manifest themselves. Yet long before midnight such a one had perhaps felt himself yield to fatigue and had tied a wet towel around his head or had taken stimulants to keep himself awake. ...

— Initiative Psychic Energy • Warren Hilton

... distinctness of the s, the frequent English th with the thrusting out of the tip of the tongue between the incisors, the w, which now first appears often, as well as in the smacking first heard in the sixty-fifth week (in contented mood). The tongue is, when the child is awake, more than other muscles that in the adult are subject to cerebral volition, almost always in motion even when the child is silent. It is in various ways partly contracted, extended, bent. The lateral bending of the edges of the tongue downward and the turning back of the tip of ...

— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

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