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wake

wake
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [weyk]
    • /weɪk/
    • /weɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [weyk]
    • /weɪk/

Definitions of wake word

  • verb without object wake to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up). 1
  • verb without object wake to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken: to wake from one's daydreams. 1
  • verb without object wake to become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken: to wake to the true situation. 1
  • verb without object wake to be or continue to be awake: Whether I wake or sleep, I think of you. 1
  • verb without object wake to remain awake for some purpose, duty, etc.: I will wake until you return. 1
  • verb without object wake to hold a wake over a corpse. 1

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Origin of wake

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (v.) in sense “to become awake” continuing Middle English waken, Old English *wacan (found only in past tense wōc and the compounds onwacan, āwacan to become awake; see awake (v.)); in sense “to be awake” continuing Middle English waken, Old English wacian (cognate with Old Frisian wakia, Old Saxon wakōn, Old Norse vaka, Gothic wakan); in sense “to rouse from sleep” continuing Middle English waken, replacing Middle English wecchen, Old English weccan, probably altered by association with the other senses and with the k of Old Norse vaka; (noun) Middle English: state of wakefulness, vigil (late Middle English: vigil over a dead body), probably continuing Old English *wacu (found only in nihtwacu night-watch); all ultimately < Germanic *wak- be lively; akin to watch, vegetable, vigil

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Parts of speech for Wake

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

wake popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for wake

verb wake

  • awaken — To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
  • stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • come to — When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
  • get up — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.

noun wake

  • deathwatch — a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
  • vigil — wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
  • watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
  • last rites — anointing of the sick.
  • obsequies — a funeral rite or ceremony.

Antonyms for wake

verb wake

  • stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.

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