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WAKE

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Irregular inflected forms: woke    , woken   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

Example:

there's no weeping at an Irish wake

Synonyms:

viewing; wake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

vigil; watch (the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

Example:

the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe

Synonyms:

backwash; wake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))

Sense 3

Meaning:

An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

Synonyms:

Wake; Wake Island

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Domain member region:

Battle of Wake; Battle of Wake Island (in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines)

Holonyms ("Wake" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

Example:

in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured

Synonyms:

aftermath; backwash; wake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("wake" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Example:

She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

Synonyms:

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

"Wake" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

waker (a person who awakes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be awake, be alert, be there

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

sit up; stay up (not go to bed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

sleep (be asleep)

Derivation:

waking (the state of remaining awake)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make aware of

Example:

His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

alarm; alert (warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Arouse or excite feelings and passions

Example:

Wake old feelings of hatred

Synonyms:

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "wake" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake"):

ferment (work up into agitation or excitement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

She's fast asleep, so I won't wake her to ask leave.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Agatha—that’s my fiancée—says it is a joke in the servants’ hall that it’s impossible to wake the master.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They woke me up with their barking, or I’d be sleeping yet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Martin seemed suddenly to wake up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So I answered after I had waked from the trance-like dream.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr. Hurst?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) My Parkinson's symptoms cause me to have trouble falling asleep, or waking early.

(PDQUALIF - Trouble with Sleep Initiation or Waking Early, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient wake up at night, dress, and plan to go out thinking that it is morning and time to start the day?

(NPI - Wake Up at Night, Dress, and Plan to Go Out, NCI Thesaurus)

Sleeping or waking, my head has been full of this matter all night.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Capable of only limited selfcare, confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours.

(ECOG Performance Status 3, NCI Thesaurus)