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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wake \wake\, v. i. imp. p. p. wakedor woke ?; p. pr.
vb. n. waking. as. wacan, wacian; akin to ofries. waka,
os. wak?n, d. waken, g. wachen, ohg. wahh?n, icel. vaka, sw.
vaken, dan. vaage, goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., skr.
v=ajay to rouse, to impel. ????. cf. vigil, wait, v.
i., watch, v. i.
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1. to be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
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the father waketh for the daughter. --ecclus.
xlii. 9.
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though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --milton.
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i can not think any time, waking or sleeping,
without being sensible of it. --locke.
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2. to sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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the king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
--shak.
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3. to be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be
awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
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he infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding
doxology. --g. eliot.
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4. to be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a
dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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gentle airs due at their hour
to fan the earth now waked. --milton.
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then wake, my soul, to high desires. --keble.
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see also:
waked woke waking vigil wait watch
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