awake

1. 1

   Not asleep; conscious.not-comparablepredicative

   • We've lain awake a good many nights worrying about her.
2. 2

   Alert, aware.broadlyfigurativelypredicative

   • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

syn. alert · awake · caffeinated · conscious · invigorated · invigorating · lively · wakeful · wakesome · woke

ant. asleep · unconscious

1. 1

   To become conscious after having slept.intransitivepredicative

   • Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
2. 2

   To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.predicativetransitive

   • Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenn
   • [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſ
3. 3

   To make aware of something.predicativetransitive

4. 4

   To excite or to stir up something latent.predicativetransitive

5. 5

   To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.figurativelypredicativetransitive

6. 6

   To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.figurativelyintransitivepredicative

   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.
7. 7

   Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possible effects or results.”).predicative

   • It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
8. 8

   Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).predicative

   • this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.