wakeverb [ I or T ]
uk/weɪk/us/weɪk/past tense woke or waked, past participle woken or waked also wake upA1 to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping:
Did you wake at all during the night?
Please wake me early tomorrow.
I woke up with a headache.
Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me out of/from a bad dream.
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- You won't wake him - he's such a heavy sleeper.
- We woke at dawn.
- We were woken in the night by the wail of ambulance sirens.
- Try not to wake the whole house when you come in!
- She eased the key into the lock, anxious not to wake anyone.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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Idiom(s)
wake up!
wake up and smell the coffee
Phrasal verb(s)
wake (sb) up
wake up to sth
wakenoun [ C ]
uk/weɪk/us/weɪk/wake noun [ C ] (WATER)
the waves that a moving ship or object leaves behind:
The wake spread out in a v-shape behind the ship.
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- Several governments have adopted tough new anti-terrorist legislation in the wake of the attacks.
- Eastern traders found their way across Europe in the wake of the Roman army.
- Safety procedures are being reviewed in the wake of the accident.
- A lot of new investment has been attracted to the region in the wake of the government's announcement.
- The road remains closed in the wake of Monday's landslide.
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Waves
- bore
- break
- breaker
- choppy
- crest
- dumper
- heavy
- lap
- overfall
- ripple
- roller
- spume
- standing wave
- surf
- swell
- tidal wave
- tsunami
- wave
- whitecaps
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wake noun [ C ] (FUNERAL)
an occasion when the family and friends of a dead person meet in order to look at the dead body the night before it is buried, or when they meet after a dead person has been buried to drink and talk about the person's life
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Funerals
- closed-casket
- cortege
- funeral
- funeral parlour
- funerary
- funereal
- green burial
- hearse
- lay
- morgue
- mortician
- mourner
- natural burial
- open-casket
- pall
- pay your respects idiom
- respect
- the last post
- undertaker
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Remembering people who have died
Idiom(s)
in the wake of sth
leave sth in your wake