wake1
v.
(past woke or US, dialect, or archaic waked; past part. woken or US, dialect, or archaic waked)
-
(often wake up)
emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping.
▸
(wake up to)
become alert to or aware of.
▸cause to stir or come to life.
- Irish or N. Amer. dialect hold a vigil beside (someone who has died).
n.
- a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died.
▸(especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral.
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(wakes)
[treated as sing.]
an annual festival and holiday in some parts of northern England.
Phrase
- be a wake-up
Austral./NZ informal be fully alert or aware.
Derivative
Etymology
OE (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Gmc origin; cf. watch.
wake2
n.
a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.
Phrase
- in the wake of
following as a consequence or result.
Etymology
C15: prob. via Mid. Low Ger. from ON vǫk, vaka ‘hole or opening in ice’.
