Wake
[weɪk] or [wek]
Definition
(noun.) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; 'there's no weeping at an Irish wake'.
(noun.) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; 'the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe'.
(verb.) be awake, be alert, be there.
(verb.) make aware of; 'His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation'.
Editor: Spence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Watch, be awake, not be asleep.[2]. Awake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.[3]. Revel, carouse, feast.
v. a. [1]. Awaken, waken, rouse from sleep.[2]. Arouse, rouse, excite, kindle, stimulate, provoke, stir up.
n. [1]. Vigil, watching.[2]. Track (of a vessel), trail.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rouse, suscitate, excite, reanimate, revive, awake, watch, revel, evoke,summon, provoke, call
ANT:Soothe, allay, appease, lay, hush, lullaby, mesmerize, tranquilize, quiet
Editor: Olaf
Definition
n. the streak of smooth water left in the track of a ship: hence (fig.) 'in the wake of ' in the train of immediately after.
v.i. to cease from sleep: to lie awake: (B.) to watch: to be roused up active or vigilant: to return to life: (Shak.) to hold a late revel: to keep vigil.—v.t. to rouse from sleep: to keep vigil over: to excite disturb: to reanimate:—pa.t. and pa.p. waked or woke.—n. act of waking: feast of the dedication of a church formerly kept by watching all night: sitting up of persons with a corpse.—adj. Wake′ful being awake: indisposed to sleep: vigilant.—adv. Wake′fully.—n. Wake′fulness.—v.t. and v.i. Wā′ken to wake or awake: to be awake.—ns. Wake′ner one who or that which wakens; Wake′ning act of one who wakens; (Scots law) revival of an action; Wā′ker one who wakes.—adj. Wake′rife (Scot.) wakeful.—ns. Wake′-time time during which one is awake; Wā′king.—adj. being awake: rousing from sleep: passed in the waking state.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice some important engagement to enjoy some ill-favored assignation. For a young woman to see her lover at a wake, foretells that she will listen to the entreaties of passion, and will be persuaded to hazard honor for love.
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Examples
- I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Are you any fresher now, or do you want the iron candlestick to wake you thoroughly? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Russia, Holland, and Britain followed in the wake of America. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chances are they won't be able to wake anybody up there and if they do wake up they will be too sleepy to think. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In another world, if I am forgiven, I may wake a child and come to you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She slumbered towards the afternoon, and I put away the book of drawings so that she might not see it when she woke. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Catherick came into our garden one night, and woke us by throwing up a handful of gravel from the walk at our window. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When he woke, Withington had left. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She thought about him the very first moment on waking; and his was the very last name mentioned in her prayers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Slowly, at last, he moved his eyes from my face, as if he were waking from a vision, and cast them round the room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Let us then sum up in a word, I said, the character of the worst man: he is the waking reality of what we dreamed. Plato. The Republic.
- Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr. Hurst? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I intend to tell him, as soon as he wakes, that he must return with me to London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His gills'll look rummer when he wakes; won't they? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is what Noah says when he wakes out of drunkenness and realizes that his youngest son, Ham, father of Canaan, has seen him naked. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- From clime to clime, from shore to shore, Shall thrill the magic thread; The new Prometheus steals once more The fire that wakes the dead. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If you'll tell me wen he wakes, I'll be upon the wery best extra-super behaviour! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Trenor's eye had the haggard look of the sleep-walker waked on a deathly ledge. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Helpless as a child which has sobbed and sought too long, she fell into a late morning sleep, and when she waked Mr. Casaubon was already up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I waked the orderly and he poured mineral water on the dressings. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And I know not if I slept or waked, or were in a dead swoon, till Mary come in; and I telled her to fetch yo' to me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So I answered after I had waked from the trance-like dream. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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