awake
Not asleep; conscious.
Adjective 2 meanings
Not asleep; conscious.
Alert, aware.
“They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”
Verb 4 meanings
To become conscious after having slept.
To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
To make aware of something.
To excite or to stir up something latent.
Etymology
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
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AWAKE at a glance
AWAKE has 5 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (A 1 + W 4 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,561 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with awake
All rhymesOne letter away
- AWARE8
- AWOKE12
- AWAVE11
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