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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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