Definition of "awake"

awake¹

/əˈweɪk/

adjective
comparative more awake, superlative most awake
1. Not asleep; conscious.
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  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.
  2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86
2. (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.
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  The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
  1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 355
  ‘Sammy,’ whispered Mr. Weller, looking cautiously round; ‘ […] Me and a cab’net-maker has dewised a plan for gettin’ him out. A pianner, Samivel—a pianner!’ […] ‘And wot ‘ud be the good o’ that?’ said Sam.‘Let him send to my friend, the cabinet-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy,’ replied Mr. Weller. ‘Are you avake, now?’‘No,’ rejoined Sam.‘There ain’t no vurks in it,’ whispered his father. ‘It ‘ull hold him easy, vith his hat and shoes on, and breathe through the legs, vich his holler. […]
  1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837
  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.
  1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution‎

awake²

/əˈweɪk/

verb
third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken
1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
  Quotations
  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 caughtThe Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
  1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
  Quotations
  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 / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
  [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 ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
  1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
3. (transitive) To make aware of something.
4. (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
5. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
6. (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
  Quotations
  The national spirit again awoke.
  1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
  Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Corinthians 15:34

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