[
US
/əˈweɪk/
]
[ UK /ɐwˈeɪk/ ]
[ UK /ɐwˈeɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
mentally perceptive and responsive
was now awake to the reality of his predicament
alert to the problems
an alert mind
awake to the dangers of her situation
alive to what is going on -
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
still not fully awake
lay awake thinking about his new job
VERB
-
stop sleeping
She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
How To Use awake In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
- Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening. Undefined
- I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
- We shall be awake with her yowling all night. Somewhere East of Life
- Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
- How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- She lay awake listening to his snores.
- She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
- The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition