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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WAKE, v.i. [G. The primary sense is to stir, to rouse, to excite.]
1. To be awake; to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. Psalms 127.
The father waketh for the daughter.
Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps.
I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
2. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened. He wakes at the slightest noise.
3. To cease to sleep; to awake.
4. To be quick; to be alive or active.
5. To be excited from a torpid state; to be put in motion. The dormant powers of nature wake from their frosty slumbers.
Gentle airs to fan the earth now wakd.
WAKE, v.t.
1. To rouse from sleep.
The angel that talked with me, came again and waked me. Zechariah 4.
2. To arouse; to excite; to put in motion or action.
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. Joel 3.
[The use of up is common, but not necessary.]
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art.
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death.
To second life wakd in the renovation of the just.
WAKE, n.
1. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all night.
2. Vigils; state of forbearing sleep.
--Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
3. Act of waking. [Old song.]
Wake of a ship, the track it leaves in the water, formed by the meeting of the water, which rushes from each side to fill the space which the ship makes in passing through it.
To be in the wake of a ship, is to be in her track, or in a line with her keel.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, wake, 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: wake, backwash]
4: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: wake, viewing] v
1: be awake, be alert, be there [ant: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumber]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]
3: arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up]
4: make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"
5: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (woke; also waked; woken or waked; also woke; waking) Etymology: partly from Middle English waken (past wook, past participle waken), from Old English wacan to awake (past w?c, past participle wacen); partly from Middle English wakien, waken (past & past participle waked), from Old English wacian to be awake (past wacode, past participle wacod); akin to Old English wζccan to watch, Latin veg?re to enliven Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to be or remain awake b. archaic to remain awake on watch especially over a corpse c. obsolete to stay up late in revelry 2. awake — often used with up transitive verb 1. to stand watch over (as a dead body); especially to hold a wake over 2. a. to rouse from or as if from sleep ; awake — often used with up b. stir, excite <woke up latent possibilities — Norman Douglas> c. to arouse conscious interest in ; alert — usually used with to <woke the public to the risks> • waker noun II. noun Date: 13th century 1. the state of being awake 2. a. (1) an annual English parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the church's patron saint (2) vigil 1a b. the festivities originally connected with the wake of an English parish church — usually used in plural butsingular or plural in construction c. British an annual holiday or vacation — usually used in plural butsingular or plural in construction 3. a watch held over the body of a dead person prior to burial and sometimes accompanied by festivity III. noun Etymology: akin to Middle Low German wake wake, Norwegian dialect vok, Old Norse v?k hole in ice Date: 1627 1. the track left by a moving body (as a ship) in a fluid (as water); broadly a track or path left 2. aftermath 3

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked) 1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) cease or cause to cease to sleep. 2 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) become or cause to become alert, attentive, or active (needs something to wake him up). 3 intr. (archaic except as waking adj. & n.) be awake (in her waking hours; waking or sleeping). 4 tr. disturb (silence or a place) with noise; make re-echo. 5 tr. evoke (an echo). 6 intr. & tr. rise or raise from the dead. --n. 1 a watch beside a corpse before burial; lamentation and (less often) merrymaking in connection with this. 2 (usu. in pl.) an annual holiday in (industrial) northern England. 3 hist. a a vigil commemorating the dedication of a church. b a fair or merrymaking on this occasion. Phrases and idioms: be a wake-up (often foll. by to) Austral. sl. be alert or aware. wake-robin 1 Brit. an arum, esp. the cuckoo-pint. 2 US any plant of the genus Trillium. Derivatives: waker n. Etymology: OE wacan (recorded only in past woc), wacian (weak form), rel. to WATCH: sense 'vigil' perh. f. ON 2. n. 1 the track left on the water's surface by a moving ship. 2 turbulent air left behind a moving aircraft etc. Phrases and idioms: in the wake of behind, following, as a result of, in imitation of. Etymology: prob. f. MLG f. ON vök hole or opening in ice

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wakes, waking, woke, woken) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Note: The form 'waked' is used in American English for the past tense. 1. When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep. It was cold and dark when I woke at 6.30... Bob woke slowly to sunshine pouring in his window... She woke to find her dark room lit by flashing lights... She went upstairs to wake Milton. VERB: V, V to n, V to-inf, V n • Wake up means the same as wake. One morning I woke up and felt something was wrong... At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P 2. The wake of a boat or other object moving in water is the track of waves that it makes behind it as it moves through the water. Dolphins sometimes play in the wake of the boats. N-COUNT: usu sing, with poss 3. A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral. A funeral wake was in progress. N-COUNT: usu sing 4. If one thing follows in the wake of another, it happens after the other thing is over, often as a result of it. The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention... = following PREP-PHRASE 5. Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep. It was work which consumed most of his waking hours... PHRASE: usu with poss 6. If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go. Adam stumbles on, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake... PHRASE: PHR after v 7. If you are following in someone's wake, you are following them or their example. In his wake came a waiter wheeling a trolley. ...the endless stream of female artists who released albums in her wake. PHRASE: PHR after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Watch, be awake, continue awake. 2. Awake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep, cease from sleep. 3. Revel, carouse, feast, sit up late for festive purposes. 4. Be excited, be roused up, be active. II. v. a. 1. Awaken, waken, rouse from sleep. 2. Arouse, rouse, excite, kindle, stimulate, provoke, stir up, put in motion, animate, put in action, summon up. 3. Reanimate, revive, bring to life again. 4. Watch, attend in the night. III. n. 1. Vigil, watching. 2. Track (of a vessel), trail.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A country feast, commonly on the anniversary of the tutelar saint of the village, that is, the saint to whom the parish church is dedicated. Also a custom of watching the dead, called Late Wake, in use both in Ireland and Wales, where the corpse being deposited under a table, with a plate of salt on its breast, the table is covered with liquor of all sorts; and the guests, particularly, the younger part of them, amuse themselves with all kinds of pastimes and recreations: the consequence is generally more than replacing the departed friend.

Moby Thesaurus

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