Hypertext Webster Gateway: "awake"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The national spirit again awoke. --Freeman.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not. --1 Cor. xv.
34.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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) 1.7 (wn)
awake
adj 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)}]
v : stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: {wake up}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come alive},
{waken}] [ant: {fall asleep}]
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