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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
awake
    adj 1: not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake
           thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake"
           [ant: asleep(p)]
    2: mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to
       the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the
       dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of
       his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)]
    v 1: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm
         clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken,
         wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze
         off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep,
         flake out, nod off]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Awake \A*wake"\, v. i.
   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.
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         The national spirit again awoke.         --Freeman.
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         Awake to righteousness, and sin not.     --1 Cor. xv.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked;
   (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The
   form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS.
   [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i.
   (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]
   1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
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            Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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            And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
            saying, Lord, save us; we perish.     --Matt. viii.
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   2. 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; as, to awake the dead; to awake the
      dormant faculties.
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            I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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            It way awake my bounty further.       --Shak.
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            No sunny gleam awakes the trees.      --Keble.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Awake \A*wake"\, a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.]
   Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of
   vigilance or action.
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         Before whom awake I stood.               --Milton.
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         She still beheld,
         Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. --Keats.
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         He was awake to the danger.              --Froude.
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