Definition of wake

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Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..

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Awakener :: Awakener (n.) One who, or that which, awakens..
Wake :: Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess..
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Excitation :: Excitation (n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Interest :: Interest (n.) To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work..
Rouse :: Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
Disentrance :: Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
Curious :: Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Somnambulism :: Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Waketime :: Waketime (n.) Time during which one is awake.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..
Intersomnious :: Intersomnious (a.) Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.
Track :: Track (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel..
Rousing :: Rousing (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
Woke :: Woke (imp. & p. p.) Wake.
Ridicule :: Ridicule (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
Latewake :: Latewake (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich..
Adaw :: Adaw (v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake..
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