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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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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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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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