awake
adjective (awake); verb (awake, awakes, awoke, awoken — old-fashioned or in stories)
Everyday
- Awake means not sleeping. tree →
- To awake (or awaken) means to wake up or to make someone wake up. tree →
- Wide awake means fully awake and alert. tree →
In the lessons
In everyday life and health, children who lie awake at night can feel sleepy at school; screens before bed can keep you awake. In science, nocturnal animals like owls and bats are awake at night and asleep in the day. In safety, drivers must stay awake and alert. In stories, «she lay awake listening to the storm» builds suspense, and fairy tales use «awoke».
Examples
- Are you awake? tree →
- I lay awake thinking about the trip. tree →
- The noise kept me awake all night. tree →
- Owls are awake at night. tree →
- By six o'clock the baby was wide awake. tree →
- Try to stay awake until the end of the film. tree →
- Sleeping Beauty awoke after a hundred years. tree →
- Gerda lay awake for some time. tree →
Note
As an adjective it comes after the noun or verb: «the baby is awake», not «the awake baby». Opposite «asleep». Everyday verb is «wake up» (woke up); «awake/awoke» is literary. «Awaken» is also formal.
In Jewish tradition
Jacob wakes from his dream of the ladder and says God was in the place. In the psalms the poet cries "Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord?" as a figure of speech, asking God to help, and also wakes his own harp and glory to praise.
Interpretation. The tradition teaches that God's presence can be found anywhere, even where we do not expect it. It reads God's "sleeping" as only how things seem to people in trouble, since God does not sleep. The call to awake the dawn is read as a person rising early to praise God.
Examples
- And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.' (Torah GEN.28.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? (Writings PSA.44.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn. (Writings PSA.108.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn. (Writings PSA.57.9, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
As an adjective it comes after the noun or verb: «the baby is awake», not «the awake baby». Opposite «asleep». Everyday verb is «wake up» (woke up); «awake/awoke» is literary. «Awaken» is also formal.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «awake» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «awake» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «awake» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «awake» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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