awake, awaken Definition

awake
verb, tr & intr awoke, awoken, awaking

1. To stop sleeping or cause to stop sleeping.
2. To become active or cause to become active.

adj

1. Not sleeping.

Thesaurus: wakeful, wide-awake, astir.
2. Alert or aware.

Thesaurus: alert, observant, aware, attentive, conscious, vigilant, heedful.

Idiom: keep someone or something awake

To prevent them or it from sleeping.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon awacian.

Phrasal Verb: awake to something

To become conscious or aware of it.
Example: suddenly awoke to the fact that he was no longer young

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See Usage Note at wake.