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WAKE UP
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I. (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 up" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
"Wake up" entails doing...:
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
fall asleep (change from a waking to a sleeping state)
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 up" 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 up"):
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
Context examples:
Get help immediately if the injured person has: • A headache that gets worse or does not go away • Repeated vomiting or nausea • Convulsions or seizures • An inability to wake up • Dilation of one or both pupils of the eyes • Slurred speech • Weakness or numbness in the arms or legs • Loss of coordination • Increased confusion, restlessness, or agitation
(Head Injuries, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
We can now start to look at these genes in other insects, to see how variation might be linked to changes in timing for when they go dormant before winter, and when they 'wake up' in the spring, said Genevieve Kozak, one of the study's authors.
(Secrets to climate change adaptation uncovered in the European corn borer moth, National Science Foundation)
And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, Hey, you Buck, wake up!
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I cook breakfast, I eat, then I sleep on the beach three hours. I wake up. It is ten o'clock. Snow is falling. There is wind, much wind that blows fair.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
After a while, they began to think he was not going to wake up till night, and I'm not sure that he would, had he not been effectually roused by Amy's cry of joy at sight of her mother.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:—"My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up Geordie."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Kreis seemed to wake up and flash like some metallic, magnetic thing, while Norton looked at Martin sympathetically, with a sweet, girlish smile, as much as to say that he would be amply protected.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The woman sleep one day and a half. Then she wake up and go to sleep again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She shows me all her things, and I don't think she'll mind if I look at this, thought Beth, with a glance at her sister, who lay on the rug, with the tongs beside her, ready to wake up the minute the log fell apart.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Hans!" she would cry, "wake up!" and he would come to a recollection of himself, startled and shamefaced and unrepentant.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
