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wake English

Meaning wake meaning

What does wake mean?
Definitions in simple English

wake Verb

— If you wake up, you stop sleeping. I woke up early to catch the bus. I woke up at four o'clock this morning. — If someone or something wakes you up, they make you stop sleeping. Could you please wake Donald up? The alarm clock woke me up.

wake

— verb be awake, be alert, be there — noun (= aftermath) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) the aftermath of war in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured — verb (= wake up) stop sleeping She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock — noun the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe — noun a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial there's no weeping at an Irish wake — verb make aware of His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation — verb (= rouse) cause to become awake or conscious He was roused by the drunken men in the street Please wake me at 6 AM. — verb (= stir up, ignite) arouse or excite feelings and passions The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world Wake old feelings of hatred

Wake

— noun (= Wake Island) an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

Synonyms wake synonyms

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Topics wake topics

What do people use wake to talk about?
Person Life Die

Funeral
Social behavior Social activity Social event

Ceremony
Daily life Sleep

Wake up
Language and thought Think Learn

Realize

Conjugation wake conjugation

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wake · verb

Examples wake examples

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Simple sentences

Wake up at seven, please.
Please remember to wake me up at seven tomorrow morning.
Come on, wake up.
What time do you wake up in the morning?
I wake up early.
I usually wake up at six.
Be quiet, or the baby will wake up.
Birds usually wake up early in the morning.
You have to wake up early tomorrow morning.
Wake up!
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!
It is hard to wake up without a strong cup of coffee.
It is difficult to wake up on cold mornings.
The doctors tell you that your brother will never wake up again.
It's that time again! Wake up.
However late you may be, be sure to wake me.
Please wake me up at six tomorrow morning.
The noise will wake the baby up.
Jim went into the room quietly lest he should wake the baby.
Go and wake up Mary.
John tried not to wake the sleeping baby.
Good morning. It's time to wake up.

Movie subtitles

These girls need to be in jail and eat bean rice to wake them up.
Sookchae wake up. Wake up!
Mister! Wake up!
Mark, wake up!
Now, according to missionary rules, lights out promptly at 10, and we all wake up at exactly 6:30.
Oh, please help me Father! (Down, down thy soul is cast) Please let me wake up!
Come on, Elder Price. Wake up, buddy.
How dare them wake up a sleeping tiger?
Wake them up. Call all the kids together.
Hey, burn out, wake up.
Wake up! This is about your son!
Threw my Slurpee on him, still didn't wake up.
Cam, Cam! I slap him, still didn't wake up.
But it's an exciting mission: To wake up slumbering Islam and create a new society.
What am I supposed to do until you wake up?
Until you wake up and realize that, I'm going to Philly to stay with my mother.
Ivan, wake up!
Wake up!
He's fine, but when he'll actually wake up, well, that's anyone's guess.
When he gets some air, he should wake right up.
So you finally chose to wake up, did you?
Wake up, this ain't a vacation!
Wake up! You're not on vacation!
Let's get out of here before they all wake up. Hurry up.
It will be a wake!
Wake up and look facts in the face!
Then we'll get hurt too. In order to wake up, cutting off a couple of fingers is a must.
Wake them up.
I slap him, still didn't wake up.
That was the one that was supposed to wake him up.
Wake up, Horace.
If you come to an agreement, wake me.
Since it's such a trifle, we don't want to wake him up.
After the Russian Revolution, civil war raged in the Crimea. bringing in its wake chaos and misery and unscrupulous men.
Wake 'em up.
I wish I could wake 'em up.
What a place to wake up. And then what happened?

News and current affairs

Together with Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan he had to leave government in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.
They don't need to drag Britain and others kicking and screaming in their wake because the others are not compelled to join them.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
In many cases, the cohesiveness of opposition movements that come to power in the wake of a political upheaval may not be what the international media presume it to be.
In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.
In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.
Now, in the immediate wake of the Russia-Georgia crisis, Turkey's leaders have stepped forward once again to take a leadership role in the Caucasus.
Even the traditional Arab monarchies and Emirates are changing in its wake.
The problem of American power in the wake of the financial crisis is not one of decline, but of a realization that even the most powerful country cannot achieve its aims without the help of others.
Indeed, more often than not, the banks that failed or had to be rescued in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis had solvency ratios higher than those of banks that remained standing without assistance.
Fukushima was a wake-up call for all countries that use nuclear power.
Moreover, in the wake of the eight-day clash, Hamas's long-exiled leader, Khaled Meshal, who had never before dared to show himself openly to Israel, entered Gaza from Egypt.
Or, to be precise, a carbon tax could substitute for the huge array of taxes that is eventually coming anyway in the wake of massive government budget deficits.
How many wake-up calls do we need?
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.
Nevertheless, the reports about Kim's ill health hit like a rude wake-up call about the precarious nature of conditions in North Korea.
This is Asia's second wake-up call in three years, and this time the region needs to take the warning seriously.
In the wake of September 11, 2001, in particular, many on the right mistook the attempt to understand or explain the terrorists' actions as an effort to condone them.
Greece in the spring of 2010 sent a wake-up call to Great Britain.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
A wake-up call for Japan was Obama's inaction in 2012, when China captured the Scarborough Shoal, part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
The junta leaders have done little to facilitate recovery efforts in the wake of the disaster.

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