WAKE (woke, woken)

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Irregular inflected forms: woke    , woken   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wake mean? 

• WAKE (noun)
  The noun WAKE has 4 senses:

1. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

2. an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

3. the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

4. a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

  Familiarity information: WAKE used as a noun is uncommon.

• WAKE (verb)
  The verb WAKE has 5 senses:

1. be awake, be alert, be there

2. stop sleeping

3. arouse or excite feelings and passions

4. make aware of

5. cause to become awake or conscious

  Familiarity information: WAKE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

aftermath; backwash; wake

Context example:

in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Wake; Wake Island

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Domain member region:

Battle of Wake; Battle of Wake Island (in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines)

Holonyms ("Wake" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

backwash; wake

Context example:

the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

viewing; wake

Context example:

there's no weeping at an Irish wake

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

vigil; watch (the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival))

• WAKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they wake    ... he / she / it wakes   
Past simple: waked    / woke   
Past participle: waked    / woken   
-ing form: waking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be awake, be alert, be there

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

sit up; stay up (not go to bed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

sleep (be asleep)

Derivation:

waking (the state of remaining awake)

Sense 2

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 "wake" is one way to...):

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

"Wake" entails doing...:

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

waker (a person who awakes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Arouse or excite feelings and passions

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake

Context example:

Wake old feelings of hatred

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

ferment (work up into agitation or excitement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make aware of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

alarm; alert (warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

These cells, discovered only a decade ago, are crucial for maintaining sleep-wake cycles and for pupil response to light, but play no role in image formation.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

Lucy slept well into the day, and when she woke she was fairly well and strong, though not nearly so much so as the day before.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then I tell you what, young Copperfield, said Steerforth, you shall tell 'em to me. I can't get to sleep very early at night, and I generally wake rather early in the morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he woke up and cried: “Oh, what makes me shudder so?—what makes me shudder so, dear wife? Ah! now I know what it is to shudder!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“The flow structure behind the front dune is like a wake behind a boat, and affects the properties of the next dune.”

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

Henry groaned as he passed from sleep to waking, and demanded, "What's wrong now?"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Up and about more than 50% of waking hours.

(ECOG Performance Status 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent does not bind to or inhibit several receptors and enzymes that may be involved in sleep/wake regulation and is not a direct- or indirect-acting dopamine receptor agonist.

(Armodafinil, NCI Thesaurus)

It was about this time that Dorothy woke from her long sleep and opened her eyes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Sometimes I wake them and give them little bit of food.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)