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Awake   /əwˈeɪk/   Listen
Awake

adjective
1.
Not in a state of sleep; completely conscious.  "Still not fully awake"
2.
Mentally perceptive and responsive.  Synonyms: alert, alive.  "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"
verb
(past awoke; past part. awoken; pres. part. awaking)
1.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken.



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"Awake" Quotes from Famous Books



... with his rare insight into minds he had analysed us average Catholics. He might have startled us awake by explaining to non-Catholics how those who know such Truths and feed upon such Food can yet appear so dull and lifeless. Anyhow, whether the fault lie in part with us or entirely with the world at large, certain it is that in that world a convert is always expected to justify not merely ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
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... heat is apparently just as intense, and he lies awake, saying bad words about the mosquitoes which buzz around him, until the small hours of the morning. When his "boy" wakes him at six o'clock, he feels as if he had had no sleep at all. All the same it is ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
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... as though I would sleep on the floor in my blankets, but they gave me one of their bunks with plenty of dried fern and grass, on to which I had no sooner laid myself than I fell fast asleep; nor did I awake till well into the following day, when I found myself in the hut with two men keeping guard over me and an old woman cooking. When I woke the men seemed pleased, and spoke to me as though bidding me good ...
— Erewhon • Samuel Butler
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... he could not sleep. The details of the storm were pictured in his mind and kept him awake. Adding horror upon horror, he tossed from ...
— The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan • Lizette M. Edholm
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... aduersary: which if they come to passe (as God forbid) your Empire wilbe consumed. Gather your wits then together from henceforth my Lord, and call againe reason, which so many yeres you haue banished from you. Awake out of the deepe sleepe which hath sealed vp your eyes: imitate and folow the trade of your auncestors, which euer loued better one day of honour then a hundred liuing yeares of shame and reproch. Attend to the gouernment of your Empire: leaue of this effeminate life; receiue ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
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