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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Awake \A*wake"\, verb (used with an object) [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, verb (used without an object) (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, verb (used without an object) (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.]
1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25.
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.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith.
It way awake my bounty further. --Shak.
No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Awake \A*wake"\, verb (used without an object) 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. --Freeman.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not. --1 Cor. xv. 34.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Awake \A*wake"\, adjective [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Before whom awake I stood. --Milton.
She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. --Keats.
He was awake to the danger. --Froude.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
awake
adjective
1: not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [syn: {awake(p)}] [ant: {asleep(p)}]
2: not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert" [syn: {alert}, {awake(p)}]
3: (usually followed by 'to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "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)}]
verb: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: {wake up}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come alive}, {waken}] [ant: {fall asleep}] [also: {awoken}, {awoke}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "awake": activate, agile, alert, alive, animate, annoy, apprehensive, arouse, aroused, attentive, au courant, awake to, awaken, awaken to, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, blow the coals, blow up, bright, call forth, call up, clear-sighted, clear-witted, clearheaded, cognizant, come alive, come into being, come into existence, come to, come to life, conscious, conversant, enkindle, enrage, excite, excited, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get up, heat, heedful, ignite, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, keen, key up, kindle, knock up, knowing, lather up, light the fuse, light up, live again, madden, move, nimble, on guard, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, overexcite, prompt, qui vive, quick, quicken, ready, realize, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise again, rouse, roused, see the light, sensible, sentient, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shake up, sharp, sleepless, smart, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirred up, summon up, turn on, unblinking, understand, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up, up and about, vigilant, wake, wake up, wakeful, waken, warm, warm the blood, watchful, whip up, wide awake, wide-awake, work into, work up
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