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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To rouse from sleep; waken.
  2. v. To stir the interest of; excite.
  3. v. To stir up (memories, for example).
  4. v. To wake up.
  5. v. To become alert.
  6. v. To become aware or cognizant: awoke to reality. See Usage Note at wake1.
  7. adj. Completely conscious; not in a state of sleep.
  8. adj. Vigilant; watchful. See Synonyms at aware.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cease to sleep; come out of a state of natural sleep.
  2. To come into being or action as if from sleep.
  3. To bestir or rouse one's self from a state resembling sleep; emerge from a state of inaction; be invigorated with new life; become alive: as, to awake from sloth; to awake to the consciousness of a great loss.
  4. To be or remain awake; watch.
  5. To arouse from sleep.
  6. To arouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupor, or inaction; put into action or new life: as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
  7. Synonyms To wake, excite, stir up, call forth, stimulate, spur (up).
  8. Roused from sleep; not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Not asleep; conscious.
  2. adj. by extension Alert, aware.
  3. v. intransitive To become conscious after having slept.
  4. v. transitive To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
  5. v. transitive to excite or to stir up something latent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
  2. v. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up
  3. v. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
  4. adj. Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
  2. adj. mentally perceptive and responsive
  3. v. stop sleeping

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English awaken, from Old English awacan, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan ("wake"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English awaken, from Old English āwacan : ā-, intensive pref. + wacan, wake; see wake1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • oroboros Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
    Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight;
    And Lo!, the Hunter of the East has caught
    The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

    First stanza of Edward J. FitzGerald's first translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

    Here's the fifth version:

    Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
    The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
    Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and
    strikes
    The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light. Jan 3, 2007

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