Definition of wake

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Wake (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active..

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Waking :: Waking (n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake..
Wakened :: Wakened (imp. & p. pr.) of Wake.
Awaken :: Awaken (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Awaken :: Awaken () of Awak.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army..
Live :: Live (a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator..
Lethargy :: Lethargy (n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
Psychopannychism :: Psychopannychism (n.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body..
Latewake :: Latewake (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich..
Jog :: Jog (n.) A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt.
Lords And Ladies :: Lords and Ladies () The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies..
Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..
Abraid :: Abraid (v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out..
Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error..
Awakening :: Awakening (n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual..
Waken :: Waken (v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..
Pathos :: Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry..
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
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