awake

present (v1)

awake

past (v2)

awoke

past participle (v3)

awoken

present participle

awaking

3rd person singular

awakes

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Not asleep; conscious.

   • By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

2. 2.Alert, aware.

   • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
   • The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
   • And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To become conscious after having slept.

2. 2.To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

3. 3.To make aware of something.

4. 4.To excite or to stir up something latent.

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