Word: Wake
How to pronounce: weɪk
Verb
Definitions:
1. Emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping.
Example sentences: "She woke up feeling better"
2. Hold a vigil beside (someone who has died)
Noun
Definitions:
1. A watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances including eating and drinking.
Example sentences: "He was attending a friend's wake"
2. (in some parts of the UK) a festival and holiday held annually in a rural parish, originally on the feast day of the patron saint of the church.
Example sentences: "His workers absented themselves for the local wakes"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.
Example sentences: "The reason given for this crash was that the aircraft flew into the wake of another aircraft, and the pilot lost control of it."
Synonyms:
wake up
awake
awaken
rouse
arouse
get up
stir up
reveille
wakefulness
alert
come to
regain consciousness
wake island
come round
aftermath
Antonyms:
go to sleep
fall asleep
Derivations:
wakened
waked
wakeless
waken
waking
wakening
wakeful
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Wake in Other Languages...
Spanish: Despertar
German: Aufwachen
French: Réveiller
Italian: Wake
Turkish: Uyandırmak
