wake

wake1 [ weık ] (past tense woke [ wouk ] ; past participle wok|en [ `woukən ] ) verb ***

wake or wake up intransitive to stop sleeping:

I woke at 5 o'clock this morning.

Alan woke to a quiet knocking on his door.

wake (up) doing something: Jean always wakes up feeling hungry.

a. transitive to make someone stop sleeping:

My son wakes me up at six every morning.

Can you be quieter, so you don't wake the baby.

,wake `up phrasal verb

1. ) intransitive or transitive to start to feel more lively or make someone feel more lively:

Another cup of coffee will wake me up.

2. ) intransitive or transitive to start to pay more attention to something, or make people pay more attention to something:

It takes a serious crisis to wake people up.

3. ) same as WAKE1

wake up and smell the coffee AMERICAN INFORMAL

used for telling someone they need to pay attention to what is happening in a situation they are in, usually a situation that is not good

,wake `up to phrasal verb transitive

wake up to something to start to realize something:

They need to wake up to the fact that the sport has completely changed.

wake

wake 2 [ weık ] noun count *

1. ) the track that appears in the water behind a moving boat

2. ) a meeting of friends and relations before or after a funeral to remember the person who has died

in someone's/something's wake

after someone or something:

Mary walked off and he followed in her wake.

in the wake of

happening after an event or as a result of it:

An inquiry has been set up in the wake of the crash.