awake : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: awake	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for awake
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awake adj not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" Antonym(s): asleep(p) mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" Synonym(s): alert, alive(p), awake(p) v stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" Synonym(s): wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken Antonym(s): dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awake \Awake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked}; (Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [be]w[91]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[omac]c), and [be]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake* her. --Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25. 2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. --Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awake \Awake"\, v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. The national spirit again awoke. --Freeman. Awake* to righteousness, and sin not. --1 Cor. xv. 34.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awake \Awake"\, a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake* I stood. --Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. --Keats. He was awake to the danger. --Froude.