intransitive/transitive to start to feel more lively, or to make someone feel more lively
Another cup of coffee will wake me up.
Synonyms and related words
To become, or to make something more interesting or exciting
gussy up
wake up
enliven
2
intransitive/transitive to start to pay more attention to something, or to make people pay more attention to something
It takes a serious crisis to wakepeople up.
Synonyms and related words
To be, or to become interested in something
deal in
wake up
have something on the brain
3
same as wake
4
wake up and smell the coffeeinformalused for telling someone that they need to pay attention to what is happening in a situation they are in, usually a situation that is not good
Synonyms and related words
Expressions used for telling someone to pay attention
right
okay then
hello
wake up
phrasal verb
Other entries for this word
wake up
wake up tophrasal verb
wake-up callnoun
Word Forms
present tense
I/you/we/they
wake up
he/she/it
wakes up
present participle
waking up
past tense
woke up
past participle
woken up
DEFINITIONS4
1
intransitive/transitive to start to feel more lively, or to make someone feel more lively
Another cup of coffee will wake me up.
Synonyms and related words
To become, or to make something more interesting or exciting
gussy up
wake up
enliven
2
intransitive/transitive to start to pay more attention to something, or to make people pay more attention to something
It takes a serious crisis to wakepeople up.
Synonyms and related words
To be, or to become interested in something
deal in
wake up
have something on the brain
3
same as wake
4
wake up and smell the coffeeinformalused for telling someone that they need to pay attention to what is happening in a situation they are in, usually a situation that is not good
Synonyms and related words
Expressions used for telling someone to pay attention