(often + up) to stop sleeping, or to rouse (somebody) from sleep; to awake

to be or remain awake

The fears never came on her during waking hours, only in her dreams

(+ up) to pay more attention to what is happening or what one is doing

(+ up to) to realize or become aware of a problem, an unpalatable truth, etc

(often + up) to rouse (somebody) from sleep

(+ up) to pay more attention to what is happening or what one is doing

(+ up to) to realize or become aware of a problem, an unpalatable truth, etc

(+ up) to make (somebody) pay more attention to what is happening or what they are doing

to hold a wake over (e.g. a dead person)

a watch held over the body of a dead person prior to burial and sometimes accompanied by festivity

festivities after a funeral

(in pl, but treated as sing. or pl) the festivities originally connected with the annual fair or festival of an English parish church and now marked by an annual holiday, typically in the industrial north of England

We all go off to Blackpool during wakes week

the track left by a moving body, e.g. a ship, in a fluid, e.g. water

a track or path left behind after something has passed

The hurricane left thousands of dollars’ worth of damage in its wake