awake

Meanings

Adjective

• Not asleep; conscious.
• Alert, aware.

Verb

• To become conscious after having slept.
• To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
• to excite or to stir up something latent.
• To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
• To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Origin

• From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken, past participle of Middle English awaken. See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak, German Low German waak, German wach.
• From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian, equivalent to a- + wake.