COME ALIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come alive mean? 

• COME ALIVE (verb)
  The verb COME ALIVE has 1 sense:

1. stop sleeping

  Familiarity information: COME ALIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME ALIVE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

Hypernyms (to "come alive" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

"Come alive" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Well now, I'm no scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure, and to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead for good, or do he come alive again?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)