Definition of awake in English:

awake

verbawoke, awoken əˈweɪkəˈweɪk

[no object]

1Stop sleeping; wake from sleep.
醒；睡醒
she awoke to find the streets covered in snow
她醒来发现马路上盖满了雪。
Example sentencesExamples
- On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face.
- The pounding on the door grew louder and Rolandon walked over to the bolted door, messed up his hair, and pinched his cheeks to make it appear that he had just awoken from sleep.
- Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke.
- As you awake from your troubled sleep, you realize that the group you'd dreamed about is deep in the woods.
- For one, the city that doesn't sleep has awoken even more, recovering in the face of tragedy with a determination and moxie that only New Yorkers can muster.
- But… he had feigned sleep as his sty-mates awoke, and had heard them leave.
- She awoke when the carriage stopped with a jolt.
- It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change.
- Every day she awoke from sleep and either went to work or didn't.
- I slept reasonably well, awaking only for the Erie, PA station stop.
- He felt weak all over like he had just awoken from a deep sleep.
- Despite sleeping late, I awoke with a real humdinger of a hangover.
- Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus.
- It was rather more like a lethargic dog who awoke from a comfortable sleep.
- After twenty minutes or so, the car came to a stop, and I awoke with the lack of movement.
- Then pain was an immense pulsation on her back that hadn't stopped since she had awoken again.
- He said he went back to sleep and when he awoke, she was gone.
- It was like the students had finally awoken from eternal sleep.
- Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain.
- Another stint of exhausted sleep passed and Kate awoke again.
Synonyms
wake (up), awaken, stir, come to, come round, bestir oneself, show signs of life, return to the land of the living
1. 1.1with object Cause (someone) to wake from sleep.
  唤醒（某人）
  my screams awoke my parents
  我的尖叫吵醒了父母。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Four forty-five am, my alarm awakes me to remind me three hours sleep really wasn't enough.
  I was asleep in my chambers when a cry awoke me from my sleep, it came from Aurala's room.
  But this time there was no difficulty in awaking the person whom I wanted to meet.
  In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear.
  A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion.
  Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep.
  A scream awoke me on the morning of my last day at Tian's tower.
  Shurkom gently awoke E.D. out of a restless sleep, and announced that Robert was in need of his presence.
  My mother came into our room when our excited cries awoke her from her sleep.
  With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination.
  My baby girl's need for an early morning feed awoke me and, seeing as how that's the sleep thing shot for now, I figured I might as well read.
  And suddenly, he heard Kato's voice, light as if not to awake him from a sleep.
  As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey.
  I shoved open the door and slammed it behind me, not caring if it awoke my parents.
  Steve rushed to the door before she awoke his parents and snuck her into his bedroom.
  It was probably some idiotic unknown stranger who awoke me from my beauty sleep.
  It rang and echoed in the quiet apartment, until it awoke Brenda's mother, sleeping in the room next-door.
  With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me.
  The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep.
  Only a disaster of the most profound magnitude will awake the American people.
  Synonyms
  wake (up), awaken, waken, rouse, arouse
  informal give someone a shout
  British informal knock up
2. 1.2 Regain consciousness.
  苏醒
  I awoke none the worse for the operation
  我术后醒来自觉未伤元气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She told the court that she fell unconscious after breathing in the gas and awoke to find Haslam spreadeagled on her.
  He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed.
  It was over an hour until the pair awoke from their trance.
  When I awoke, some hours later, my heart racing without a complete recollection of why, the fire had died.
  When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him.
  After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
  An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts.
  A few hours later when Maria awoke she couldn't remember where she was.
  The pilot lost consciousness, but awoke in time to notice large rocks rapidly becoming larger.
  He claimed he lost consciousness and awoke in the Emergency Department at the Montfort Hospital.
  I stayed in a stage that was in and out of consciousness until I fully awoke sometime between five and six in the morning.
  When she awoke, only half conscious, there were voices coming closer.
  I could feel my body beginning to awake, regaining warmth.
  Kevin's senses came to him slowly as he awoke into consciousness again.
  An hour or so later I awoke to find an orderly wheeling me to the theatre.
  Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak.
  She said Mitchell told her he was unconscious for half an hour and awoke to his friend's screams.
  After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again.
  James' mother told the inquest her son did not lose consciousness but ‘stayed awake until the end’.
  Later-it seemed like hour to him-Theorton awoke, still on the hospital table.
  Synonyms
  regain consciousness, recover consciousness, come round, come to life, come to one's senses, recover, wake up
3. 1.3awake to Become aware of; come to a realization of.
  〈喻〉意识到
  the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem
  当局最终意识到了问题的严重程度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The UN and NGO community only awoke to the conflict in 2004.
  Or is this just a case of Labour awaking to the fact that their social engineering programme is about to be revoked by the electorate unless they do it themselves?
  The weekly newsmagazine Veja finally awoke to the issue in the recent edition.
  Members of Congress have begun to awake to the problem of illegal immigration.
  In recent years governments and citizens and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to awake to the problem of modern-day slavery.
  Kirton talks a good game, and one which will be badly needed if Scotland is to awake to the realities of Ryder Cup bidding.
  Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus.
  Share prices began a steep descent, and investors gradually awoke to the reality that they had been had.
  It is then that the battle to beat Labour in the Scottish Parliament vote steps up and Scotland awakes to the dreadful reality that it is now on a programme of non-stop campaigning.
  Just as he was pinching himself to make sure it was all real he was injured and awoke to the reality of trials and loan deals.
  Synonyms
  realize, become aware of, become conscious of, become cognizant of, become mindful of
  informal get wise to
  rare cognize
4. 1.4 Make or become active again.
  （使）活跃；唤醒
  with object there were echoes and scents which awoke some memory in me
  有些回音和气味唤醒了我的一些记忆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories.
  That school field trip awoke my passion for photography.
  The memories Chris had awoken within her from their date in the park didn't help.
  I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
  The café appears in the brain as this delicious, muddy scent first, awaking a memory.
  In the intervening years I still watched the odd game or two each season, but last weekend awoke emotions that Id not felt for years.
  The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action.
  He wonders if it is some of her blacked-out memories that have suddenly awoken in her mind.
  She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors.

adjective əˈweɪkəˈweɪk

1predicative Not asleep.
醒着的
the noise might keep you awake at night
噪音也许会让你夜里不能入睡。
Example sentencesExamples
- All of these effects are well known and may occur when one's consciousness shifts into a state between being fully asleep and fully awake.
- Lisa couldn't fall asleep so she stayed awake and studied him, praying he would find his way out of the maze of lies he'd created for himself.
- Not that sort of restless, you understand, but rather restless awake rather than asleep.
- She looked about her and saw that Ron and James, though looking asleep were awake, softly whispering to each other.
- Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
- Catherine was awake, half asleep, walking down her boss' hall.
- As a runner, I have more trouble staying awake than falling asleep at night.
- A sister who is also a good friend goes from being 40 miles away to being so physically distant she is awake when you're asleep.
- In the beginning the contrast between being awake and being asleep is great; it feels like the clouds have the upper hand.
- In the dishevelled moments when one's neither awake nor asleep they will have felt inexplicably happy.
- He knew that, without even looking - which he did anyway - just like he used to know when Spencer was awake or asleep.
- I've been lying awake nights wondering what it all means.
- This applies especially to my inability to distinguish between being asleep and being awake.
- Much later that night when Hoshi and Minako were asleep Alice was awake.
- I think about the time difference - they're now asleep and won't be awake until I'm asleep.
- When the entire camp is asleep, children are awake because they are eager to see their mothers, to have meals with their fathers.
- Don't get me wrong, I'm no vampire, but, when possible, it's a lot of fun to be awake when everyone is asleep.
- More severely affected children hyperventilate both awake and asleep.
- She looked and saw that Isaac was asleep and Jack was awake.
- I was still half asleep but I was awake enough to hear the reproach in the nurse's voice and I interpreted it as her suggesting I had neglected Gerald.
Synonyms
wakeful, sleepless, wide awake, conscious
tossing and turning, restless, restive
archaic watchful
rare insomnolent
1. 1.1awake to Aware of.
  too few are awake to the dangers
  意识到危险的人寥寥无几。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I can't yet see an uprising in the Australian people regarding this - are they awake to what is happening?
  Now we awake to the nightmare that tens of millions of faraway innocents live every moment.
  O God, keep us alert to the opportunities to serve and awake to the promise that ‘we are your disciples if we love one another.’
  As a hotelier, he feels corporates must be alive and awake to the social and environmental problems plaguing the nation.
  And he is always aware of the presence of the Otherworld that lives not beyond but within the natural world, and always awake to its mysterious pull.
  Howard is well awake to those instincts and worked the media carefully to make a trickle of boatpeople look like the Mongol hordes were coming for us.
  The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal.
  What he is really awake to, however, is the opportunity he has here.
  Congratulations to them for being awake to the needs of the province.
  He was awake to this reflection on his colleague.
  I think the whole Tasmanian community and, Mr Speaker, the whole Australian community indeed, is awake to what he's about.
  Well, Larry, long-range effects on this is that now the Indian Ocean is awake, or that entire area is awake to the fact that it's possible.
  That means partly giving understanding but also making people awake to the excitement of it all.
  His supporters as a group are each more empowered and awake to a new set of political choices and political responsibilities and power in their daily lives than he as one man could ever be.
  The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose.
  Nothing had been heard like it, then all of a sudden Hollywood was alive and awake to widescreen pictures.
  As a spoken word poet, I ask myself: Are we awake to the inherent needs of each other?
  The only thing good that could happen is that Australia is sort of more awake to this terrorism bloody thing that's around the world.
  People are more awake to political stuff, whereas you couldn't say that about Americans 10 years ago.
  But only if they are awake to the threat posed by the underdogs.
  Synonyms
  aware of, conscious of, cognizant of, mindful of, sensible of, alive to, alert to, sensitive to
  archaic ware of

Origin

Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense 'come out of sleep' (see a-², wake¹).

watch from Old English:
In Old English watch meant ‘to be or remain awake’, and it is from the same root as wake (Old English) and awake (Old English). The connection with timepieces arose because in the 15th century the first watches were alarm clocks of some kind, whose function was to wake you up. The watches of the night are the hours of night, especially as a time when you cannot sleep. This watch was one of the periods into which the night was divided for the purposes of guard duty. The link with insomnia first appears in the writings of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote in his journal for January 1826: ‘The watches of the night pass wearily when disturbed by fruitless regrets.’

Rhymes

ache, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake

Definition of awake in US English:

awake

verbəˈwākəˈweɪk

1no object Stop sleeping; wake from sleep.
醒；睡醒
she awoke to find the streets covered in snow
她醒来发现马路上盖满了雪。
Example sentencesExamples
- Every day she awoke from sleep and either went to work or didn't.
- Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus.
- Then pain was an immense pulsation on her back that hadn't stopped since she had awoken again.
- She awoke when the carriage stopped with a jolt.
- But… he had feigned sleep as his sty-mates awoke, and had heard them leave.
- It was rather more like a lethargic dog who awoke from a comfortable sleep.
- I slept reasonably well, awaking only for the Erie, PA station stop.
- It was like the students had finally awoken from eternal sleep.
- Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke.
- On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face.
- Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain.
- After twenty minutes or so, the car came to a stop, and I awoke with the lack of movement.
- He felt weak all over like he had just awoken from a deep sleep.
- He said he went back to sleep and when he awoke, she was gone.
- Another stint of exhausted sleep passed and Kate awoke again.
- As you awake from your troubled sleep, you realize that the group you'd dreamed about is deep in the woods.
- It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change.
- Despite sleeping late, I awoke with a real humdinger of a hangover.
- For one, the city that doesn't sleep has awoken even more, recovering in the face of tragedy with a determination and moxie that only New Yorkers can muster.
- The pounding on the door grew louder and Rolandon walked over to the bolted door, messed up his hair, and pinched his cheeks to make it appear that he had just awoken from sleep.
Synonyms
wake, wake up, awaken, stir, come to, come round, bestir oneself, show signs of life, return to the land of the living
1. 1.1with object Cause (someone) to wake from sleep.
  唤醒（某人）
  my screams awoke my parents
  我的尖叫吵醒了父母。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was probably some idiotic unknown stranger who awoke me from my beauty sleep.
  A scream awoke me on the morning of my last day at Tian's tower.
  Shurkom gently awoke E.D. out of a restless sleep, and announced that Robert was in need of his presence.
  A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion.
  Four forty-five am, my alarm awakes me to remind me three hours sleep really wasn't enough.
  Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep.
  In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear.
  I shoved open the door and slammed it behind me, not caring if it awoke my parents.
  Only a disaster of the most profound magnitude will awake the American people.
  Steve rushed to the door before she awoke his parents and snuck her into his bedroom.
  With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination.
  The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep.
  As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey.
  I was asleep in my chambers when a cry awoke me from my sleep, it came from Aurala's room.
  It rang and echoed in the quiet apartment, until it awoke Brenda's mother, sleeping in the room next-door.
  But this time there was no difficulty in awaking the person whom I wanted to meet.
  With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me.
  My baby girl's need for an early morning feed awoke me and, seeing as how that's the sleep thing shot for now, I figured I might as well read.
  My mother came into our room when our excited cries awoke her from her sleep.
  And suddenly, he heard Kato's voice, light as if not to awake him from a sleep.
  Synonyms
  wake, wake up, awaken, waken, rouse, arouse
2. 1.2 Regain consciousness.
  苏醒
  I awoke six hours after the operation
  我术后醒来自觉未伤元气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could feel my body beginning to awake, regaining warmth.
  After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
  Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak.
  After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again.
  I stayed in a stage that was in and out of consciousness until I fully awoke sometime between five and six in the morning.
  He claimed he lost consciousness and awoke in the Emergency Department at the Montfort Hospital.
  James' mother told the inquest her son did not lose consciousness but ‘stayed awake until the end’.
  An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts.
  When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him.
  The pilot lost consciousness, but awoke in time to notice large rocks rapidly becoming larger.
  She told the court that she fell unconscious after breathing in the gas and awoke to find Haslam spreadeagled on her.
  She said Mitchell told her he was unconscious for half an hour and awoke to his friend's screams.
  A few hours later when Maria awoke she couldn't remember where she was.
  When she awoke, only half conscious, there were voices coming closer.
  Kevin's senses came to him slowly as he awoke into consciousness again.
  It was over an hour until the pair awoke from their trance.
  When I awoke, some hours later, my heart racing without a complete recollection of why, the fire had died.
  An hour or so later I awoke to find an orderly wheeling me to the theatre.
  He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed.
  Later-it seemed like hour to him-Theorton awoke, still on the hospital table.
  Synonyms
  regain consciousness, recover consciousness, come round, come to life, come to one's senses, recover, wake up
3. 1.3awake to Become aware of; come to a realization of.
  〈喻〉意识到
  the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem
  当局最终意识到了问题的严重程度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The weekly newsmagazine Veja finally awoke to the issue in the recent edition.
  It is then that the battle to beat Labour in the Scottish Parliament vote steps up and Scotland awakes to the dreadful reality that it is now on a programme of non-stop campaigning.
  Members of Congress have begun to awake to the problem of illegal immigration.
  In recent years governments and citizens and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to awake to the problem of modern-day slavery.
  Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus.
  Just as he was pinching himself to make sure it was all real he was injured and awoke to the reality of trials and loan deals.
  Or is this just a case of Labour awaking to the fact that their social engineering programme is about to be revoked by the electorate unless they do it themselves?
  The UN and NGO community only awoke to the conflict in 2004.
  Kirton talks a good game, and one which will be badly needed if Scotland is to awake to the realities of Ryder Cup bidding.
  Share prices began a steep descent, and investors gradually awoke to the reality that they had been had.
  Synonyms
  realize, become aware of, become conscious of, become cognizant of, become mindful of
4. 1.4 Make or become active again.
  （使）活跃；唤醒
  there were echoes and scents that awoke some memory in me
  有些回音和气味唤醒了我的一些记忆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories.
  That school field trip awoke my passion for photography.
  In the intervening years I still watched the odd game or two each season, but last weekend awoke emotions that Id not felt for years.
  The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action.
  I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
  The café appears in the brain as this delicious, muddy scent first, awaking a memory.
  She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors.
  He wonders if it is some of her blacked-out memories that have suddenly awoken in her mind.
  The memories Chris had awoken within her from their date in the park didn't help.

adjectiveəˈwākəˈweɪk

1predicative Not asleep.
醒着的
the noise might keep you awake at night
噪音也许会让你夜里不能入睡。
Example sentencesExamples
- Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
- I've been lying awake nights wondering what it all means.
- More severely affected children hyperventilate both awake and asleep.
- Don't get me wrong, I'm no vampire, but, when possible, it's a lot of fun to be awake when everyone is asleep.
- She looked and saw that Isaac was asleep and Jack was awake.
- In the beginning the contrast between being awake and being asleep is great; it feels like the clouds have the upper hand.
- All of these effects are well known and may occur when one's consciousness shifts into a state between being fully asleep and fully awake.
- Catherine was awake, half asleep, walking down her boss' hall.
- Not that sort of restless, you understand, but rather restless awake rather than asleep.
- Much later that night when Hoshi and Minako were asleep Alice was awake.
- In the dishevelled moments when one's neither awake nor asleep they will have felt inexplicably happy.
- As a runner, I have more trouble staying awake than falling asleep at night.
- I was still half asleep but I was awake enough to hear the reproach in the nurse's voice and I interpreted it as her suggesting I had neglected Gerald.
- Lisa couldn't fall asleep so she stayed awake and studied him, praying he would find his way out of the maze of lies he'd created for himself.
- He knew that, without even looking - which he did anyway - just like he used to know when Spencer was awake or asleep.
- This applies especially to my inability to distinguish between being asleep and being awake.
- She looked about her and saw that Ron and James, though looking asleep were awake, softly whispering to each other.
- I think about the time difference - they're now asleep and won't be awake until I'm asleep.
- A sister who is also a good friend goes from being 40 miles away to being so physically distant she is awake when you're asleep.
- When the entire camp is asleep, children are awake because they are eager to see their mothers, to have meals with their fathers.
Synonyms
wakeful, sleepless, wide awake, conscious
1. 1.1awake to Aware of.
  too few are awake to the dangers
  意识到危险的人寥寥无几。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His supporters as a group are each more empowered and awake to a new set of political choices and political responsibilities and power in their daily lives than he as one man could ever be.
  I can't yet see an uprising in the Australian people regarding this - are they awake to what is happening?
  People are more awake to political stuff, whereas you couldn't say that about Americans 10 years ago.
  As a hotelier, he feels corporates must be alive and awake to the social and environmental problems plaguing the nation.
  That means partly giving understanding but also making people awake to the excitement of it all.
  He was awake to this reflection on his colleague.
  Congratulations to them for being awake to the needs of the province.
  As a spoken word poet, I ask myself: Are we awake to the inherent needs of each other?
  But only if they are awake to the threat posed by the underdogs.
  Howard is well awake to those instincts and worked the media carefully to make a trickle of boatpeople look like the Mongol hordes were coming for us.
  The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal.
  Well, Larry, long-range effects on this is that now the Indian Ocean is awake, or that entire area is awake to the fact that it's possible.
  O God, keep us alert to the opportunities to serve and awake to the promise that ‘we are your disciples if we love one another.’
  And he is always aware of the presence of the Otherworld that lives not beyond but within the natural world, and always awake to its mysterious pull.
  The only thing good that could happen is that Australia is sort of more awake to this terrorism bloody thing that's around the world.
  What he is really awake to, however, is the opportunity he has here.
  Now we awake to the nightmare that tens of millions of faraway innocents live every moment.
  I think the whole Tasmanian community and, Mr Speaker, the whole Australian community indeed, is awake to what he's about.
  The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose.
  Nothing had been heard like it, then all of a sudden Hollywood was alive and awake to widescreen pictures.
  Synonyms
  aware of, conscious of, cognizant of, mindful of, sensible of, alive to, alert to, sensitive to

Origin

Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (see a-, wake).

单词	awake
释义	Definition of awake in English: awake verbawoke, awoken əˈweɪkəˈweɪk [no object] 1Stop sleeping; wake from sleep. 醒；睡醒 she awoke to find the streets covered in snow 她醒来发现马路上盖满了雪。 Example sentencesExamples On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face. The pounding on the door grew louder and Rolandon walked over to the bolted door, messed up his hair, and pinched his cheeks to make it appear that he had just awoken from sleep. Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke. As you awake from your troubled sleep, you realize that the group you'd dreamed about is deep in the woods. For one, the city that doesn't sleep has awoken even more, recovering in the face of tragedy with a determination and moxie that only New Yorkers can muster. But… he had feigned sleep as his sty-mates awoke, and had heard them leave. She awoke when the carriage stopped with a jolt. It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change. Every day she awoke from sleep and either went to work or didn't. I slept reasonably well, awaking only for the Erie, PA station stop. He felt weak all over like he had just awoken from a deep sleep. Despite sleeping late, I awoke with a real humdinger of a hangover. Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus. It was rather more like a lethargic dog who awoke from a comfortable sleep. After twenty minutes or so, the car came to a stop, and I awoke with the lack of movement. Then pain was an immense pulsation on her back that hadn't stopped since she had awoken again. He said he went back to sleep and when he awoke, she was gone. It was like the students had finally awoken from eternal sleep. Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain. Another stint of exhausted sleep passed and Kate awoke again. Synonyms wake (up), awaken, stir, come to, come round, bestir oneself, show signs of life, return to the land of the living 1.1with object Cause (someone) to wake from sleep. 唤醒（某人） my screams awoke my parents 我的尖叫吵醒了父母。 Example sentencesExamples Four forty-five am, my alarm awakes me to remind me three hours sleep really wasn't enough. I was asleep in my chambers when a cry awoke me from my sleep, it came from Aurala's room. But this time there was no difficulty in awaking the person whom I wanted to meet. In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear. A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion. Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep. A scream awoke me on the morning of my last day at Tian's tower. Shurkom gently awoke E.D. out of a restless sleep, and announced that Robert was in need of his presence. My mother came into our room when our excited cries awoke her from her sleep. With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination. My baby girl's need for an early morning feed awoke me and, seeing as how that's the sleep thing shot for now, I figured I might as well read. And suddenly, he heard Kato's voice, light as if not to awake him from a sleep. As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. I shoved open the door and slammed it behind me, not caring if it awoke my parents. Steve rushed to the door before she awoke his parents and snuck her into his bedroom. It was probably some idiotic unknown stranger who awoke me from my beauty sleep. It rang and echoed in the quiet apartment, until it awoke Brenda's mother, sleeping in the room next-door. With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me. The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep. Only a disaster of the most profound magnitude will awake the American people. Synonyms wake (up), awaken, waken, rouse, arouse informal give someone a shout British informal knock up 1.2 Regain consciousness. 苏醒 I awoke none the worse for the operation 我术后醒来自觉未伤元气。 Example sentencesExamples She told the court that she fell unconscious after breathing in the gas and awoke to find Haslam spreadeagled on her. He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed. It was over an hour until the pair awoke from their trance. When I awoke, some hours later, my heart racing without a complete recollection of why, the fire had died. When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him. After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now. An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts. A few hours later when Maria awoke she couldn't remember where she was. The pilot lost consciousness, but awoke in time to notice large rocks rapidly becoming larger. He claimed he lost consciousness and awoke in the Emergency Department at the Montfort Hospital. I stayed in a stage that was in and out of consciousness until I fully awoke sometime between five and six in the morning. When she awoke, only half conscious, there were voices coming closer. I could feel my body beginning to awake, regaining warmth. Kevin's senses came to him slowly as he awoke into consciousness again. An hour or so later I awoke to find an orderly wheeling me to the theatre. Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak. She said Mitchell told her he was unconscious for half an hour and awoke to his friend's screams. After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again. James' mother told the inquest her son did not lose consciousness but ‘stayed awake until the end’. Later-it seemed like hour to him-Theorton awoke, still on the hospital table. Synonyms regain consciousness, recover consciousness, come round, come to life, come to one's senses, recover, wake up 1.3awake to Become aware of; come to a realization of. 〈喻〉意识到 the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem 当局最终意识到了问题的严重程度。 Example sentencesExamples The UN and NGO community only awoke to the conflict in 2004. Or is this just a case of Labour awaking to the fact that their social engineering programme is about to be revoked by the electorate unless they do it themselves? The weekly newsmagazine Veja finally awoke to the issue in the recent edition. Members of Congress have begun to awake to the problem of illegal immigration. In recent years governments and citizens and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to awake to the problem of modern-day slavery. Kirton talks a good game, and one which will be badly needed if Scotland is to awake to the realities of Ryder Cup bidding. Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus. Share prices began a steep descent, and investors gradually awoke to the reality that they had been had. It is then that the battle to beat Labour in the Scottish Parliament vote steps up and Scotland awakes to the dreadful reality that it is now on a programme of non-stop campaigning. Just as he was pinching himself to make sure it was all real he was injured and awoke to the reality of trials and loan deals. Synonyms realize, become aware of, become conscious of, become cognizant of, become mindful of informal get wise to rare cognize 1.4 Make or become active again. （使）活跃；唤醒 with object there were echoes and scents which awoke some memory in me 有些回音和气味唤醒了我的一些记忆。 Example sentencesExamples I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories. That school field trip awoke my passion for photography. The memories Chris had awoken within her from their date in the park didn't help. I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. The café appears in the brain as this delicious, muddy scent first, awaking a memory. In the intervening years I still watched the odd game or two each season, but last weekend awoke emotions that Id not felt for years. The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action. He wonders if it is some of her blacked-out memories that have suddenly awoken in her mind. She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors. adjective əˈweɪkəˈweɪk 1predicative Not asleep. 醒着的 the noise might keep you awake at night 噪音也许会让你夜里不能入睡。 Example sentencesExamples All of these effects are well known and may occur when one's consciousness shifts into a state between being fully asleep and fully awake. Lisa couldn't fall asleep so she stayed awake and studied him, praying he would find his way out of the maze of lies he'd created for himself. Not that sort of restless, you understand, but rather restless awake rather than asleep. She looked about her and saw that Ron and James, though looking asleep were awake, softly whispering to each other. Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him. Catherine was awake, half asleep, walking down her boss' hall. As a runner, I have more trouble staying awake than falling asleep at night. A sister who is also a good friend goes from being 40 miles away to being so physically distant she is awake when you're asleep. In the beginning the contrast between being awake and being asleep is great; it feels like the clouds have the upper hand. In the dishevelled moments when one's neither awake nor asleep they will have felt inexplicably happy. He knew that, without even looking - which he did anyway - just like he used to know when Spencer was awake or asleep. I've been lying awake nights wondering what it all means. This applies especially to my inability to distinguish between being asleep and being awake. Much later that night when Hoshi and Minako were asleep Alice was awake. I think about the time difference - they're now asleep and won't be awake until I'm asleep. When the entire camp is asleep, children are awake because they are eager to see their mothers, to have meals with their fathers. Don't get me wrong, I'm no vampire, but, when possible, it's a lot of fun to be awake when everyone is asleep. More severely affected children hyperventilate both awake and asleep. She looked and saw that Isaac was asleep and Jack was awake. I was still half asleep but I was awake enough to hear the reproach in the nurse's voice and I interpreted it as her suggesting I had neglected Gerald. Synonyms wakeful, sleepless, wide awake, conscious tossing and turning, restless, restive archaic watchful rare insomnolent 1.1awake to Aware of. too few are awake to the dangers 意识到危险的人寥寥无几。 Example sentencesExamples I can't yet see an uprising in the Australian people regarding this - are they awake to what is happening? Now we awake to the nightmare that tens of millions of faraway innocents live every moment. O God, keep us alert to the opportunities to serve and awake to the promise that ‘we are your disciples if we love one another.’ As a hotelier, he feels corporates must be alive and awake to the social and environmental problems plaguing the nation. And he is always aware of the presence of the Otherworld that lives not beyond but within the natural world, and always awake to its mysterious pull. Howard is well awake to those instincts and worked the media carefully to make a trickle of boatpeople look like the Mongol hordes were coming for us. The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal. What he is really awake to, however, is the opportunity he has here. Congratulations to them for being awake to the needs of the province. He was awake to this reflection on his colleague. I think the whole Tasmanian community and, Mr Speaker, the whole Australian community indeed, is awake to what he's about. Well, Larry, long-range effects on this is that now the Indian Ocean is awake, or that entire area is awake to the fact that it's possible. That means partly giving understanding but also making people awake to the excitement of it all. His supporters as a group are each more empowered and awake to a new set of political choices and political responsibilities and power in their daily lives than he as one man could ever be. The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose. Nothing had been heard like it, then all of a sudden Hollywood was alive and awake to widescreen pictures. As a spoken word poet, I ask myself: Are we awake to the inherent needs of each other? The only thing good that could happen is that Australia is sort of more awake to this terrorism bloody thing that's around the world. People are more awake to political stuff, whereas you couldn't say that about Americans 10 years ago. But only if they are awake to the threat posed by the underdogs. Synonyms aware of, conscious of, cognizant of, mindful of, sensible of, alive to, alert to, sensitive to archaic ware of Origin Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense 'come out of sleep' (see a-², wake¹). watch from Old English: In Old English watch meant ‘to be or remain awake’, and it is from the same root as wake (Old English) and awake (Old English). The connection with timepieces arose because in the 15th century the first watches were alarm clocks of some kind, whose function was to wake you up. The watches of the night are the hours of night, especially as a time when you cannot sleep. This watch was one of the periods into which the night was divided for the purposes of guard duty. The link with insomnia first appears in the writings of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote in his journal for January 1826: ‘The watches of the night pass wearily when disturbed by fruitless regrets.’ Rhymes ache, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake Definition of awake in US English: awake verbəˈwākəˈweɪk 1no object Stop sleeping; wake from sleep. 醒；睡醒 she awoke to find the streets covered in snow 她醒来发现马路上盖满了雪。 Example sentencesExamples Every day she awoke from sleep and either went to work or didn't. Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus. Then pain was an immense pulsation on her back that hadn't stopped since she had awoken again. She awoke when the carriage stopped with a jolt. But… he had feigned sleep as his sty-mates awoke, and had heard them leave. It was rather more like a lethargic dog who awoke from a comfortable sleep. I slept reasonably well, awaking only for the Erie, PA station stop. It was like the students had finally awoken from eternal sleep. Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke. On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face. Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain. After twenty minutes or so, the car came to a stop, and I awoke with the lack of movement. He felt weak all over like he had just awoken from a deep sleep. He said he went back to sleep and when he awoke, she was gone. Another stint of exhausted sleep passed and Kate awoke again. As you awake from your troubled sleep, you realize that the group you'd dreamed about is deep in the woods. It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change. Despite sleeping late, I awoke with a real humdinger of a hangover. For one, the city that doesn't sleep has awoken even more, recovering in the face of tragedy with a determination and moxie that only New Yorkers can muster. The pounding on the door grew louder and Rolandon walked over to the bolted door, messed up his hair, and pinched his cheeks to make it appear that he had just awoken from sleep. Synonyms wake, wake up, awaken, stir, come to, come round, bestir oneself, show signs of life, return to the land of the living 1.1with object Cause (someone) to wake from sleep. 唤醒（某人） my screams awoke my parents 我的尖叫吵醒了父母。 Example sentencesExamples It was probably some idiotic unknown stranger who awoke me from my beauty sleep. A scream awoke me on the morning of my last day at Tian's tower. Shurkom gently awoke E.D. out of a restless sleep, and announced that Robert was in need of his presence. A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion. Four forty-five am, my alarm awakes me to remind me three hours sleep really wasn't enough. Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep. In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear. I shoved open the door and slammed it behind me, not caring if it awoke my parents. Only a disaster of the most profound magnitude will awake the American people. Steve rushed to the door before she awoke his parents and snuck her into his bedroom. With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination. The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep. As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. I was asleep in my chambers when a cry awoke me from my sleep, it came from Aurala's room. It rang and echoed in the quiet apartment, until it awoke Brenda's mother, sleeping in the room next-door. But this time there was no difficulty in awaking the person whom I wanted to meet. With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me. My baby girl's need for an early morning feed awoke me and, seeing as how that's the sleep thing shot for now, I figured I might as well read. My mother came into our room when our excited cries awoke her from her sleep. And suddenly, he heard Kato's voice, light as if not to awake him from a sleep. Synonyms wake, wake up, awaken, waken, rouse, arouse 1.2 Regain consciousness. 苏醒 I awoke six hours after the operation 我术后醒来自觉未伤元气。 Example sentencesExamples I could feel my body beginning to awake, regaining warmth. After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now. Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak. After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again. I stayed in a stage that was in and out of consciousness until I fully awoke sometime between five and six in the morning. He claimed he lost consciousness and awoke in the Emergency Department at the Montfort Hospital. James' mother told the inquest her son did not lose consciousness but ‘stayed awake until the end’. An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts. When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him. The pilot lost consciousness, but awoke in time to notice large rocks rapidly becoming larger. She told the court that she fell unconscious after breathing in the gas and awoke to find Haslam spreadeagled on her. She said Mitchell told her he was unconscious for half an hour and awoke to his friend's screams. A few hours later when Maria awoke she couldn't remember where she was. When she awoke, only half conscious, there were voices coming closer. Kevin's senses came to him slowly as he awoke into consciousness again. It was over an hour until the pair awoke from their trance. When I awoke, some hours later, my heart racing without a complete recollection of why, the fire had died. An hour or so later I awoke to find an orderly wheeling me to the theatre. He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed. Later-it seemed like hour to him-Theorton awoke, still on the hospital table. Synonyms regain consciousness, recover consciousness, come round, come to life, come to one's senses, recover, wake up 1.3awake to Become aware of; come to a realization of. 〈喻〉意识到 the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem 当局最终意识到了问题的严重程度。 Example sentencesExamples The weekly newsmagazine Veja finally awoke to the issue in the recent edition. It is then that the battle to beat Labour in the Scottish Parliament vote steps up and Scotland awakes to the dreadful reality that it is now on a programme of non-stop campaigning. Members of Congress have begun to awake to the problem of illegal immigration. In recent years governments and citizens and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to awake to the problem of modern-day slavery. Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus. Just as he was pinching himself to make sure it was all real he was injured and awoke to the reality of trials and loan deals. Or is this just a case of Labour awaking to the fact that their social engineering programme is about to be revoked by the electorate unless they do it themselves? The UN and NGO community only awoke to the conflict in 2004. Kirton talks a good game, and one which will be badly needed if Scotland is to awake to the realities of Ryder Cup bidding. Share prices began a steep descent, and investors gradually awoke to the reality that they had been had. Synonyms realize, become aware of, become conscious of, become cognizant of, become mindful of 1.4 Make or become active again. （使）活跃；唤醒 there were echoes and scents that awoke some memory in me 有些回音和气味唤醒了我的一些记忆。 Example sentencesExamples I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories. That school field trip awoke my passion for photography. In the intervening years I still watched the odd game or two each season, but last weekend awoke emotions that Id not felt for years. The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action. I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. The café appears in the brain as this delicious, muddy scent first, awaking a memory. She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors. He wonders if it is some of her blacked-out memories that have suddenly awoken in her mind. The memories Chris had awoken within her from their date in the park didn't help. adjectiveəˈwākəˈweɪk 1predicative Not asleep. 醒着的 the noise might keep you awake at night 噪音也许会让你夜里不能入睡。 Example sentencesExamples Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him. I've been lying awake nights wondering what it all means. More severely affected children hyperventilate both awake and asleep. Don't get me wrong, I'm no vampire, but, when possible, it's a lot of fun to be awake when everyone is asleep. She looked and saw that Isaac was asleep and Jack was awake. In the beginning the contrast between being awake and being asleep is great; it feels like the clouds have the upper hand. All of these effects are well known and may occur when one's consciousness shifts into a state between being fully asleep and fully awake. Catherine was awake, half asleep, walking down her boss' hall. Not that sort of restless, you understand, but rather restless awake rather than asleep. Much later that night when Hoshi and Minako were asleep Alice was awake. In the dishevelled moments when one's neither awake nor asleep they will have felt inexplicably happy. As a runner, I have more trouble staying awake than falling asleep at night. I was still half asleep but I was awake enough to hear the reproach in the nurse's voice and I interpreted it as her suggesting I had neglected Gerald. Lisa couldn't fall asleep so she stayed awake and studied him, praying he would find his way out of the maze of lies he'd created for himself. He knew that, without even looking - which he did anyway - just like he used to know when Spencer was awake or asleep. This applies especially to my inability to distinguish between being asleep and being awake. She looked about her and saw that Ron and James, though looking asleep were awake, softly whispering to each other. I think about the time difference - they're now asleep and won't be awake until I'm asleep. A sister who is also a good friend goes from being 40 miles away to being so physically distant she is awake when you're asleep. When the entire camp is asleep, children are awake because they are eager to see their mothers, to have meals with their fathers. Synonyms wakeful, sleepless, wide awake, conscious 1.1awake to Aware of. too few are awake to the dangers 意识到危险的人寥寥无几。 Example sentencesExamples His supporters as a group are each more empowered and awake to a new set of political choices and political responsibilities and power in their daily lives than he as one man could ever be. I can't yet see an uprising in the Australian people regarding this - are they awake to what is happening? People are more awake to political stuff, whereas you couldn't say that about Americans 10 years ago. As a hotelier, he feels corporates must be alive and awake to the social and environmental problems plaguing the nation. That means partly giving understanding but also making people awake to the excitement of it all. He was awake to this reflection on his colleague. Congratulations to them for being awake to the needs of the province. As a spoken word poet, I ask myself: Are we awake to the inherent needs of each other? But only if they are awake to the threat posed by the underdogs. Howard is well awake to those instincts and worked the media carefully to make a trickle of boatpeople look like the Mongol hordes were coming for us. The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal. Well, Larry, long-range effects on this is that now the Indian Ocean is awake, or that entire area is awake to the fact that it's possible. O God, keep us alert to the opportunities to serve and awake to the promise that ‘we are your disciples if we love one another.’ And he is always aware of the presence of the Otherworld that lives not beyond but within the natural world, and always awake to its mysterious pull. The only thing good that could happen is that Australia is sort of more awake to this terrorism bloody thing that's around the world. What he is really awake to, however, is the opportunity he has here. Now we awake to the nightmare that tens of millions of faraway innocents live every moment. I think the whole Tasmanian community and, Mr Speaker, the whole Australian community indeed, is awake to what he's about. The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose. Nothing had been heard like it, then all of a sudden Hollywood was alive and awake to widescreen pictures. Synonyms aware of, conscious of, cognizant of, mindful of, sensible of, alive to, alert to, sensitive to Origin Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (see a-, wake).
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