• IPA: /əˈweɪk/

awake (predicative only)

1. Not asleep; conscious.

   Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake, Thesaurus:awake

   Antonyms: asleep, unconscious, Thesaurus:asleep

2. (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.

   Synonyms: wary, woke, Thesaurus:vigilant

   Antonyms: heedless, oblivious

   They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

• French: éveillé, réveillé
• German: wach
• Italian: sveglio, desto
• Portuguese: desperto, acordado
• Russian: бо́дрствующий
• Spanish: despierto

• Italian: consapevole, conscio, cosciente
• Spanish: listo, despierto

awake (awakes, present participle awaking; past awoke, past participle awoken)

1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

   Synonyms: awaken, wake up, Thesaurus:wake

   Antonyms: fall asleep, Thesaurus:fall asleep

   • Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up, Thesaurus:awaken

   Antonyms: put to sleep

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:19.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter primum], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold

   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...

3. (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
4. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

   • The national spirit again awoke.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Corinthians 15:34 ↗:

     Awake to righteousness, and sin not.

• French: réveiller
• German: aufwachen, erwachen
• Italian: svegliarsi
• Portuguese: acordar, despertar
• Russian: просыпа́ться
• Spanish: despertarse

• French: réveiller, éveiller
• German: aufwecken
• Italian: svegliare
• Portuguese: despertar, acordar
• Russian: буди́ть
• Spanish: despertar

• German: erwecken
• Portuguese: despertar, acordar
• Russian: пробужда́ть