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Wake   /weɪk/   Listen
Wake

verb
(past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)
1.
Be awake, be alert, be there.
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken.
3.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"
4.
Make aware of.
5.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."
noun
1.
The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).  Synonyms: aftermath, backwash.  "In the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
2.
An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii.  Synonym: Wake Island.
3.
The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward.  Synonym: backwash.
4.
A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial.  Synonym: viewing.



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"Wake" Quotes from Famous Books



... and calm, got into the confusion as a soft breeze had, that day so long ago, and brought full consciousness in its wake. ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... thieves are in our lamps; that is always a sign of heavy rain; but the rain and the north wind will be good for the crops that are still standing.... Why, what can have happened to our mate, who lives here? Why does he not come to join our party? There used to be no need to haul him in our wake, for he would march at our head singing the verses of Phrynichus; he was a lover of singing. Should we not, friends, make a halt here and sign to call him out? The charm of my voice will fetch him out, if he ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... other grounds worth attention as a sign of the times, though on poetical grounds it is assuredly worth none. Part of it is written in blank verse, or at least in rhymeless lines; so that after all it probably followed in the wake of Tamburlaine, half adopting and half rejecting the innovations of that fiery reformer, who wrought on the old English stage no less a miracle than Hernani on the French stage in the days of our fathers. That Selimus was published four years later than Tamburlaine, in the year ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... what was going on. Then I heard Rossi come scampering into my room. 'My God, it's an earthquake!' he yelled. 'Get your things and run!' I grabbed what I could lay my hands on and raced like a madman for the office. On the way down I shouted as loud as I could so the others would wake up. ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various
... is replaced by overlapping leaves. In the forms of this century we have the same process repeated. Schinkel and Botticher began with the Greek form, and have put it to various uses; Stuler, Strack, Gropius, and others followed in their wake until the more close resemblance to the forms of the period of the Renaissance in regard to Roman art which characterizes the present ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various


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