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Awake

speaker

Meaning

Adj

Not
; conscious.
Alert, aware.

Verb

To become
after having slept.
To cause (somebody) to
sleeping.
  • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: [This
    ] I ſuffered to
    above an
    in the Spirit; and after I had
    out, and
    its body and
    into a natural poſture,
    moveleſs about an
    ;
    , upon a ſudden,
    it had been
    a
    ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and
    away...
  • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
  • [This
    ] I ſuffered to
    above an
    in the Spirit; and after I had
    out, and
    its body and
    into a natural poſture,
    moveleſs about an
    ;
    , upon a ſudden,
    it had been
    a
    ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and
    away...
  • To make
    of something.
    To
    or to
    something latent.
    To
    from a state of
    or dormancy.
    To
    of a state of
    or dormancy.
    Sourced from
    Wiktionary

    Origin

    awake
    English
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    awaken
    Middle English (1100-1500)
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    awacan
    Old English (ca. 450-1100)
    Sourced from
    Etym
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