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wake1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wk)
v. woke, (wk) or waked (wkt) waked, or wok·en (wkn) wak·ing, wakes
v. intr.
1.
1. To cease to sleep; become awake: overslept and woke late.
2. To stay awake: Bears wake for spring, summer, and fall and hibernate for the winter.
3. To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness: suddenly woke to the danger we were in.
2. To keep watch or guard, especially over a corpse.
v. tr.
1. To rouse from sleep; awaken.
2. To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities.
3. To make aware of; alert: The shocking revelations finally woke me to the facts of the matter.
4.
1. To keep a vigil over.
2. To hold a wake over.
n.
1. A watch; a vigil.
2. A watch over the body of a deceased person before burial, sometimes accompanied by festivity. Also called viewing.
3. wakes (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Chiefly British.
1. A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint.
2. An annual vacation.
[Middle English wakien, waken, from Old English wacan, to wake up, and wacian, to be awake, keep watch; see weg- in Indo-European Roots.]waker n.
Usage Note: The pairs wake, waken and awake, awaken have formed a bewildering array since the Middle English period. All four words have similar meanings, though there are some differences in use. Only wake is used in the sense “to be awake,” as in expressions like waking (not wakening) and sleeping, every waking hour. Wake is also more common than waken when used together with up, and awake and awaken never occur in this context: She woke up (rarely wakened up; never awakened up or awoke up). Some writers have suggested that waken should be used only transitively (as in The alarm wakened him) and awaken only intransitively (as in He awakened at dawn), but there is ample literary precedent for usages such as He wakened early and They did not awaken her. In figurative senses awake and awaken are more prevalent: With the governor's defeat the party awoke to the strength of the opposition to its position on abortion. The scent of the gardenias awakened my memory of his unexpected appearance that afternoon years ago.
Regional Note: Regional American dialects vary in the way that certain verbs form their principal parts. Northern dialects seem to favor forms that change the internal vowel in the verbhence dove for the past tense of dive, and woke for wake: They woke up with a start. Southern dialects, on the other hand, tend to prefer forms that add an -ed to form the past tense and the past participle of these same verbs: The children dived into the swimming hole. The baby waked up early.
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wake2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wk)
n.
1. The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water: the wake of a ship.
2. A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed: The war left destruction and famine in its wake.
Idiom:
in the wake of
1. Following directly on.
2. In the aftermath of; as a consequence of.
[Possibly from Middle Low German, hole in the ice, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse vök.]
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wake
In addition to the idioms beginning with wake, also see in the wake of; to wake the dead.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
wake
\Wake\, n. [Originally, an open space of water s?rrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v["o]k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.] The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. --De Quincey.
Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. --Thackeray.
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wake
\Wake\, v. t. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
The angel . . . came again and waked me. --Zech. iv. 1.
2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. ``I shall waken all this company.'' --Chaucer.
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton.
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. --J. R. Green.
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. --Milton.
4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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wake
\Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wakedor Woke (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.] 1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.
I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. --Locke.
2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. --Shak.
3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. --G. Eliot.
4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. --Milton.
Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble.
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wake
\Wake\, n. 1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic]
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. --Shak.
Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. --Dryden.
2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. --Dryden.
The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. --Milton.
3. Specifically: (a) (Ch. of Eng.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. --Ld. Berners.
And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. --Drayton. (b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. ``Blithe as shepherd at a wake.'' --Cowper.
Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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wake
n 1: the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: aftermath, backwash] 2: an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: Wake Island, Wake] 3: the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: backwash] 4: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: viewing] v 1: be awake, be alert, be there [ant: sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, come alive, waken] [ant: fall asleep]
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Zip code(s): 23176
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wake
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