awake

adjectif

1. 1

   Not asleep; conscious.

   By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

2. 2

   figuréAlert, aware.

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

   The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.

   And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.

verbe

1. 1

   To become conscious after having slept.

   Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

2. 2

   To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   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

   [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. 3

   To make aware of something.

4. 4

   To excite or to stir up something latent.

5. 5

   figuréTo rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

6. 6

   figuréTo come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

   1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.

   Awake to righteousness, and sin not.

7. 7

   Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”).

   It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.

8. 8

   Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).

   this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.

Formes

passé

awoke, awaked

participe passé

awoken, awaked, awoke, awaken

participe présent

awaking

3ᵉ personne du singulier

awakes