wake1 verbwake2 noun
wakewake1 /weɪk/ ●●● S2 W3 (also wake up) verb (past tense woke /wəʊk $ woʊk/, past participle woken /ˈwəʊkən $ ˈwoʊ-/) [intransitive, transitive] 
WORD ORIGINwake1
Origin:
Old English wacan ‘to wake up’ and wacian ‘to be awake’VERB TABLE
wake
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | wake |
| he, she, it | wakes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | woke |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have woken |
| he, she, it | has woken | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had woken |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will wake |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have woken |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am waking |
| he, she, it | is waking | |
| you, we, they | are waking | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was waking |
| you, we, they | were waking | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been waking |
| he, she, it | has been waking | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been waking |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be waking |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been waking |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Dad said he woke up at five this morning.
- Try not to wake the baby if you go in the bedroom.
- And he woke up with more than just his stomach growling.
- But do not try to wake him into a higher level.
- Fourteenth-century Wandsworth was waking up, deciding it could have another ten minutes, and turning over in its warm straw.
- It was impossible to wake anyone in the house.
- The windows of the house glowed suddenly bright, like the eyes of some monster waking in the dark.
- Then Mrs Dempster woke him as usual with a cup of tea, and he felt better.
Longman Language Activatorwhen pictures, films etc do not make things seem real
also realise British · Tim only realized his mistake the next day.· Without realising it, we had gone the wrong way.· Oh, is that your chair? Sorry, I didn't realize.realize (that) · She woke up and realised that there was someone moving around downstairs.
if something occurs to you, you suddenly realize that it might be true, especially when you had been thinking something completely different before: it occurs to somebody (that): · It suddenly occurred to me that maybe she was lying.· Didn't it ever occur to you that they would probably like to be alone together?
to slowly realize something, especially over a fairly long period of time: become aware of: · I was slowly becoming aware of how much Melissa was suffering.become aware that: · He became aware that the man sitting opposite was staring at him intently.
if a fact or someone's words sink in , you gradually realize their full meaning: · The news of the President's assassination had only just begun to sink in.· Winning this tournament means so much to me. It hasn't really sunk in yet.
if a fact dawns on you, you slowly start to realize it, especially when you should have realized it before: · The awful truth only dawned on me later.it dawns on somebody that: · It slowly dawned on her that they were all making fun of her.it dawns on somebody how/why etc: · It didn't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got to the hospital.
if an idea or thought strikes you, you suddenly realize something: it strikes somebody (that): · It struck her one day, when she was walking home from school, that she hadn't thought about her weight for over a month.· It just struck me - you must have been in the same class as my brother.
if a fact hits you, you suddenly realize its importance or its full meaning and you feel shocked: · The full impact of what he'd said hit me a few hours later.it hits somebody: · Suddenly it hit me. He was trying to ask me to marry him.
to begin to fully realize and understand something, especially after you have avoided thinking about it because it is unpleasant or it makes you feel uncomfortable: · How long will it be before people wake up to the fact that anyone can catch AIDS.· The speaker warned that we must "wake up to the fact that we are in a tough competitive market".
spoken say this when you suddenly realize something that makes a subject or situation easy to understand: · Then it clicked. The man at the station must have been her brother!it clicked what/how/where etc: · Finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about.
to make someone realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is: · This is the last place you would expect there to be a murder. It just brings it home to you that this kind of thing can happen anywhere.· It often takes something like a heart attack to bring home to people the danger of smoking.
to stop sleeping to stop sleeping. Wake is more formal than wake up and is usually used in writing.: · She woke early the next morning, and slipped out of the house unseen.· Babies often wake because they are hungry.· The dog suddenly woke up and started barking.wake up at 5 a.m./12 noon etc: · I woke up at five o'clock and couldn't get back to sleep again.
not asleep: be awake: · "Are you awake, Lucy?" she whispered.· I'm usually awake before anyone else.be wide awake (=be completely awake): · It was nearly three in the morning, but Jill was still wide awake.be half awake/barely awake (=be not quite awake): · He listened, only half awake, as the teacher's voice droned on.· Barely awake, we stumbled out of the tent to find ourselves in a foot of water.keep somebody awake: · I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings, as it tends to keep me awake at night.stay awake: · Some members of the audience were clearly having difficulty staying awake.lie awake (=be unable to sleep at night): · Ben lay awake, worrying about next day's exam. · I've lain awake at nights, turning the problem over and over in my mind.
also come round British to gradually become conscious again after being given a drug or being hit on the head: · She was coming round after her operation, but she still felt dizzy and very sleepy.· Henry's eyelids flickered. 'He's coming around!' Marie cried.
to move slightly and wake for a short time, then go back to sleep again: · As I entered the room, she stirred slightly, then went back to sleep.· Roger momentarily stirred, turned in the bed and murmured something inaudible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there!COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She woke to find a man by her bed.
Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there!· Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
She woke to find a man by her bed. (=all the time you are awake)· He spent every waking moment in the lab.
(=something extremely bad that happens in your life)· Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
(=realize what is happening or real)· Well, they need to wake up to reality.
· A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· He wakes early next morning, and gets out at once, anxious to get to grips with the city.· She was woken early this morning by a burglar alarm.· When I wake early to the dawn chorus, I turn my face into my pillow, hoping to prolong the dream.· The blonde student woke early in Devon, and shifted under the sleeping weight of his arm.· Jay woke early, and turned to hold Lucy.· I wake early to the phone.· She woke early, happy, and calm.
· Aunt Sophie woke suddenly, eyes clear, as though she had never been asleep.· He had suddenly woken up realizing that his blurry baby had finally become quite outrageous.· I wake suddenly in the night, aware of the others breathing and the wind banging the tent fabric.· Now I was about to meet him again, it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream.· I was woken suddenly when my box was lifted high in the air.· Lancaster grunted, as if suddenly waking from a reverie.· I woke suddenly with my hand on my piece.· Later on that evening, Randolph woke suddenly, hearing a banging noise on his door.
NOUN· The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction.· Their faces burn with a shame like they have just woke up to the fact they been played for suckers again.· But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.· Gradually the world is waking up to the fact that they are winning.
· I woke in the middle of the night and walked downstairs.· I wake up in the middle of the night from a dream.· If she woke up in the middle of the night, she'd be frightened.· Powell woke Howland in the middle of the night and poured out his conviction, but it was too late.· Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night.· I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay's clothes out of the wardrobe.· I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated.· But there's one thing which still sometimes wakes me in the middle of the night.
· Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom.· Christmas morning I woke with the first blue light.· That morning Ellis woke up in Jane's bed.· In the morning I woke up and turned over; a big cloud of dust rose from the mattress.· On the Monday morning he woke up very early, just as it was getting light.· The next morning, Jody wakes up in the dark at six with-out the usual urgings of the alarm clock.· Next morning, Folly woke up half expecting that it would all turn out to be a dream.· The next morning he woke up coughing and gagging as her father yanked him up by the collar.
· The night before she had woken uneasy.· One night he woke to the sound of the fire alarm whooping.· In the dead of night I woke up for some reason, and lay listening to the others as they slept.· Several times each night she woke up crying and needed to be rocked back to sleep.· A few nights later I was woken by a noise at about two in the morning.· That night I woke up past mid-night and had to use the bathroom.· At night Janir woke constantly: four times, five times, I was never sure how many.
· Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.· One night he woke to the sound of the fire alarm whooping.· Marlene woke to the sound of a heavy weight being dragged across the floor.· I woke to the sound of voices, the shuffling of shoes against the bare wood floor.· The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.· He did not know how long he lay there but was woken by the sound of turning pages.· She woke later to the sound of a voice calling out in panic.· I woke to the sound of torrential rain.
· Marlene woke with a start, her whole body ached and she was freezing cold.· He woke up with a start at dawn.· She gave it a little shake and it woke up with a start.· He soon fell asleep, but woke with a start when his grandmother plucked out a hair.· Captain Richard Moore's day begins as the ring of the telephone wakes him with a start from a deep sleep.· Sometime in the middle of the night I woke with a start, as Clarisa climbed on to the cot.· Jack Foley woke with a start.· When she woke with a start, it was already late.
VERB· I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together.· I remember waking up and feel-ing this poncho liner bubbling up a little bit.· The next thing she remembered was being woken up and told the house was on fire.· I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock.· She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake.· I remember waking up in my tent.· The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place.
· On suddenly realising he is dreaming, he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed.· But do not try to wake him into a higher level.· Grainne raised herself cautiously on one elbow, trying not to wake Raynor, and looked towards the door.· I tried to wake him up in the morning and the whole bed was filled with blood.· Get across there and try to wake the Putts, Seb.· His young curate, Father Gannon, was trying to wake him up.· She began to beat on the worm's flesh, trying to wake the children, calling, shouting, yelling.· Anyone who tried to sleep was woken up by bright lights and an officer running a stick along the cell bars.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping: - While the field has changed with rent control nearly quashed, wake up and smell the coffee of a new day.
When she woke, the sun was streaming through the windows. Try not to wake the baby.wake to Nancy woke to the sound of birds outside her window (=she heard birds singing when she woke).wake up phrasal verb1to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping: James usually wakes up early.wake somebody ↔ up I’ll wake you up when it’s time to leave.2to start to listen or pay attention to something: Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there!3wake up and smell the coffee American English spoken used to tell someone to recognize the truth or reality of a situationwake up to something phrasal verb to start to realize and understand a danger, an idea etc: It’s time you woke up to the fact that it’s a tough world.wake1 verbwake2 noun
wakewake2 noun [countable] WORD ORIGINwake2
Origin:
1-2,4 1400-1500 Perhaps from Dutch wak or Middle Low German wake, from Old Norse vok ‘hole in the ice, especially as made by a boat’3 1400-1500 ➔ WAKE1EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But if Nader is having problems capturing the magical double-digit support level, his nearest third-party rivals are floundering in his wake.
- I was like a water-skier without the skis, dragged through the wake of an uncompromising culture by my neck.
- In each half of the wake the eddy consists of two parallel vortex tubes of opposite sense.
- In its wake, tens of thousands are slipping off, quietly once more, to sanctuaries abroad.
- In the wake of the Clause, the Stonewall Trust was set up.
- On the way up, the slightest connection with the deceased or his family was enough reason to attend a wake.
- Salomon discards a pay plan in the wake of a string of key departures.
- The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council's decision to close eight of its homes.
Longman Language Activatorto happen after something else
especially written if an event or period follows another event or period, it happens after it: · We saw each other a lot in the months that followed.· the long period of stability that followed the warbe followed by something: · The wedding was followed by a big party at the Chelsea Hotel.· Suddenly there was a shout from above, immediately followed by a loud bang.be closely followed by something (=be followed very soon by): · China's first nuclear test in October 1964 was closely followed by a second in May 1965.there followed/follows (=after that there was): · There then followed a long and painful silence.
to happen after something else and often as a result of something else: come after something: · The agreement came after six months of negotiations.· The Napoleonic Wars came after the French Revolution.come three weeks/five days etc after something: · My first chance to talk to her came three days after our quarrel.come after: · The New Stone Age lasted about 1200 years in Britain. The period which came after is known as the Bronze Age.
formal if something such as an argument or a fight ensues , it happens after something else, often as a result of it: · I objected to what he had just said and a heated argument then ensued.· The police were called in to quell the riot that ensued.
especially American if something comes on the heels of something else, it happens very soon after it -- used especially in news reports: come on the heels of something: · The news comes on the heels of the FBI's announcement that last week's crash was caused by mechanical failure.hot/hard on the heels of something British (=immediately after something): · Tuesday's victory came hard on the heels of last week's shock defeat by Manchester United.
if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens after it and usually as a result of it: · In the wake of Thailand's economic troubles, Malaysia's currency also sank.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She woke to find a man by her bed.
· Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
She woke to find a man by her bed. (=all the time you are awake)· He spent every waking moment in the lab.
(=something extremely bad that happens in your life)· Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
(=realize what is happening or real)· Well, they need to wake up to reality.
· A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme.· One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.· Saying that they are inner things brings scepticism in its wake.· Desire brings in its wake sorrow, unrest and disappointment.· But it brings problems in its wake.· We are also aware of the need to halt the environmental degradation that overproduction brings in its wake.· Technological change brings in its wake social change.· It may also bring in its wake the danger of a too-ready acceptance of that which is not yet proven.
· The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council's decision to close eight of its homes.· He has refused to come to the wake or to the funeral.· The establishment of first and middle schools came in the wake of the Plowden Report of 1966.· The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.· Proud parents and a mass of other churchgoers came in their wake.· The latter move came in the wake of parliament's decision of Dec. 11 temporarily to suspend the privatization process.· The agreement came in the wake of a fourth attempt, in as many weeks, to reach a consensus among members.
· The service trades have always followed in the wake of the producing industries.· He merely followed in their wake, a dark ragged figure guided by the blossoming plums.· Cattle Ranching Hungry subsistence farmers follow in the wake of loggers.· A regimental musician who had become detached from his unit, he followed in the wake of the attack as a spectator.· Others, inspired by my example, are following in my wake.· And out he went, with J.. Philip Flynn following in his wake.· Ronni followed in his wake, wondering what was coming next.· As the code gained widespread acceptance, certain logical consequences followed in its wake.
· He seemed to make a habit of charging through her life and leaving destruction in his wake.· The rain had finished, leaving in its wake a vast, permeating leakage, the river noise of runoff.· And such a world will have to get used to the social and political instability which these crises leave in their wake.· Several high-ranking Apple executives, including its top marketing officer, have left in the wake of Jobs' ascendance.· He left them in his wake and when a little distance separated them from him, he heard one call out to him.· The business-as-usual measures the organization has taken in response to the crisis leave in their wake a corrosive residue.· Bottom turns and cut-backs are performed along the wave leaving a wiggly wake.· But officials switched from one theory to another in the following days, leaving confusion in their wake.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1in the wake of something if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a result of it: - In the wake of Thailand's economic troubles, Malaysia's currency also sank.
- But the unions' unpopularity in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and Labour's electoral decline also weakened the movement.
- Employees dismissed in the wake of such an exercise will usually be redundant.
- Gone was the flotilla of rafts that had followed majestically in the wake of the cruiser.
- The McDougals remain enmeshed in legal problems in the wake of their conviction with Tucker.
- The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.
- The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.
- They also might enable companies to resume the building projects they abandoned in the wake of the December 1994 peso devaluation.
- This cosmological event was widely reported in the news media, in the wake of which I heard three paradigmatic responses.
- The tornado left hundreds of damaged homes in its wake.
- Here, then, are questions that parents have raised with Child Caring in the wake of the Angeli story.
- I call Stan from the airport in San Francisco and wake him up with the bad news.
- Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake.
- The morning was cold, in the wake of the north wind that had frozen the fields since mid-March.
- The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.
- The people in the house were waking up.
- They also might enable companies to resume the building projects they abandoned in the wake of the December 1994 peso devaluation.
- To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.
Famine followed in the wake of the drought.2in somebody’s/something’s wake behind or after someone or something: The car left clouds of dust in its wake.3the time before or after a funeral when friends and relatives meet to remember the dead person4[usually singular] the track made behind a boat as it moves through the water