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Wake up   /weɪk əp/   Listen
Wake up

verb
1.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."  Antonym: cause to sleep.
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, waken.  Antonym: fall asleep.






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"Wake up" Quotes from Famous Books



... in anything,' she said. 'What was it all about! Why was I born! Was that all the meaning of life—just to work and work and be always tired!—to go to bed tired and to wake up tired, with every day like every other day unless it was harder?' She had heard talk of immortal life from the gospel sharps, she said, but she could not reckon that what she was doin' was a ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London

... Morning! Wake up! Awaken! All the boughs Are rippling on the air across the green. The youngest birds are singing to the house. Blood of the world!—and is the country clean? Disturb the precinct. Cool it with a shout. ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various

... "Wake up, Terence!" he exclaimed suddenly, "here is a ship within a mile or so of us. As she is a lugger, I am afraid ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty

... I go, up stream and down, and dive and float and wallow with bliss there is no telling—till the waters all dry up and disappear, and I am left wading in weeds and mud and drift and drought and desolation, and wake up shivering—and such ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... off to wake up a young and enthusiastic policeman; for, as he said, the Railway had suffered much from depredations in the goods-yard. Mahbub Ali chuckled in his ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling


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