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awake



awake [awake awakes awoke awaking awoken] adjective, verb BrE [əˈweɪk] NAmE [əˈweɪk]
adjective not before noun
not asleep (especially immediately before or after sleeping)
to be half/fully awake
to be wide awake (= fully awake)
I was still awake when he came to bed.
The noise was keeping everyone awake.
I was finding it hard to stay awake.
He lies awake at night worrying about his job.
She was awake (= not unconscious) during the operation on her leg.

Word Origin:
Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (from a- ‘to, towards’ and ↑wake).

Which Word?:
awake / awaken / wake up / waken
Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: The children woke me up. I was woken (up) by the telephone.
The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.
Awake is also an adjective: I was awake half the night worrying. Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Look also at ↑asleep and the verb ↑sleep.

Example Bank:
At night he lay awake beside her.
By now, the baby was wide awake.
Claudia came awake slowly.
He was struggling to stay awake.
It was very early and I was only half awake.
Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.
The children were still awake when we went out.
The noise had kept her awake.
Derived:awake to something
 
verb (awokeBrE [əˈwəʊk] ; NAmE [əˈwoʊk] , awokenBrE [əˈwəʊkən] ; NAmE [əˈwoʊkən] )(formal)
1. intransitive, transitive to wake up; to make sb wake up
~ (sb) (from/to sth) I awoke from a deep sleep.
The girls awoke to the sound of rain rattling on the windows.
~ to do sth He awoke to find her gone.
~ sb Her voice awoke the sleeping child.
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) if an emotion awakes or sth awakes an emotion, you start to feel that emotion
His speech is bound to awake old fears and hostilities.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (from a- ‘to, towards’ and ↑wake).

Which Word?:
awake / awaken / wake up / waken
Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: The children woke me up. I was woken (up) by the telephone.
The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.
Awake is also an adjective: I was awake half the night worrying. Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Look also at ↑asleep and the verb ↑sleep.

Example Bank:
He awoke suddenly in a cold sweat.
I awoke from a deep sleep at six o'clock.
She awoke early the next morning.

 

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