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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

... we are awake, and throughout the country we are trying to heed these calls, and to revive our own weakened thought by action, singing our creed in deeds. Upon the foundations laid by Friedrich Froebel and his students in the kindergarten, we are trying to build up a course in systematic hand-training, ...

— Hand-Loom Weaving - A Manual for School and Home • Mattie Phipps Todd

... [Wholly awake now, stares about her.] Why does I wake up? Why didn't you take an ax when I was asleep an' knock me over the head with it?—What did I say? Sh! Only don't tell a livin' soul a ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... "asleep," Barnum called up some one in the audience, promising to put him "in the same state" within five minutes, or forfeit fifty dollars. Of course, all his "passes" would not put a man in the mesmeric state; at the end of three minutes he was as wide awake as ever. ...

— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton

... hiratakumo, or 'flat spider'; jikumo, or 'earth spider'; and totatekumo, or 'doorshutting spider.' Most spiders are considered evil beings. A spider seen anywhere at night, the people say, should be killed; for all spiders that show themselves after dark are goblins. While people are awake and watchful, such creatures make themselves small; but when everybody is fast asleep, then they assume their true goblin shape, and ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... from that spot the tower where the will was; he pointed it out to me; it looked out upon the Quai des Morforidus, but was behind the buildings on the quai. What information could be obtained from such a point of view may be imagined. I promised to go there, not to stop, and thus awake the attention of the passers-by, but to pass along and see what was to be seen; adding, that it as simply out of complaisance to him, and not because I meant to agree in any way to his enterprise. What is incomprehensible ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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