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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. stop sleeping;
- Example: "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious;
- Example: "lay awake thinking about his new job"
- Example: "still not fully awake"

2. mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind";
- Example: "alert to the problems"
- Example: "alive to what is going on"
- Example: "awake to the dangers of her situation"
- Example: "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"
[syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awake \A*wake"\, v. i. 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. [1913 Webster] The national spirit again awoke. --Freeman. [1913 Webster] Awake to righteousness, and sin not. --1 Cor. xv. 34. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. [1913 Webster] Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] It way awake my bounty further. --Shak. [1913 Webster] No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awake \A*wake"\, a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. [1913 Webster] Before whom awake I stood. --Milton. [1913 Webster] She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. --Keats. [1913 Webster] He was awake to the danger. --Froude. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

awake adj 1: not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [ant: asleep(p)] 2: mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)] v 1: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]