awakeadj詞源 1/əˈweɪk/

• 1

  Not asleep; conscious.

  • By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
• 2

  Alert, aware.

  • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
  • The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.

awakeverb詞源 2/əˈweɪk/

• 1

  To become conscious after having slept.

  • Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
• 2

  To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

  • Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
  • [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
• 3

  To make aware of something.

• 4

  To excite or to stir up something latent.

• 5

  To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

• 6

  To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

  • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.
  • Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
• 7

  Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”).

  • It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
• 8

  Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).

  • this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.