wake
verb/weɪk/
/weɪk/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they wake | /weɪk/ /weɪk/ |
| he / she / it wakes | /weɪks/ /weɪks/ |
| past simple woke | /wəʊk/ /wəʊk/ |
| past participle woken | /ˈwəʊkən/ /ˈwəʊkən/ |
| -ing form waking | /ˈweɪkɪŋ/ /ˈweɪkɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to stop sleeping; to make somebody stop sleeping
- I always wake early in the summer.
- Tom woke with a start and lifted his head.
- wake up What time do you usually wake up in the morning?
- I woke up an hour earlier than I wanted to.
- wake to something (formal) They woke to a clear blue sky.
- I woke to the sound of heavy rain outside.
- wake from something (formal) She had just woken from a deep sleep.
- wake up to do something He woke up to find himself alone in the house.
- wake to do something The woman woke to see the defendant in her bedroom.
- wake somebody I was woken by the sound of someone moving around.
- wake somebody up Try not to wake the baby up.
Which Word? awake / awaken / wake up / wakenawake / awaken / wake up / waken- Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: The children woke me up.I was woken (up) by the telephone.
- The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.
- Awake is also an adjective: I was awake half the night worrying.Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Extra Examples- Any minute now she'd wake up to find herself at home safe in bed.
- Be careful not to wake the children!
- She had just woken up from a deep sleep.
- She had woken even earlier than usual.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- be careful not to
- not want to
- try not to
- …
- [transitive] wake something (literary or formal) to make somebody remember something or feel something again
- The incident woke memories of his past sufferings.
Word Originverb Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch.
Idioms
See wake in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee wake in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishwake up and smell the coffee
- (informal) used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant
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