Wakeverb
(intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
Wakeverb
(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
Wakeverb
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Wakeverb
To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Wakeverb
To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
Wakeverb
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Wakeverb
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
Wakeverb
(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
Wakeverb
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Wakenoun
The act of waking, or state of being awake.
Wakenoun
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Wakenoun
A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
Wakenoun
An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
Wakenoun
The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
Wakenoun
The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
Wakenoun
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
Wakenoun
A number of vultures assembled together.
Wakenoun
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Wakenoun
The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
Wakenoun
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Wakenoun
An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
Wakenoun
The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Wakeverb
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Wakeverb
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Wakeverb
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; - often with up.
Wakeverb
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Wakeverb
To rouse from sleep; to awake.
Wakeverb
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Wakeverb
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
Wakeverb
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Wakenoun
the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event);
Wakenoun
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
Wakenoun
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward;
Wakenoun
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial;
Wakeverb
be awake, be alert, be there
Wakeverb
stop sleeping;
Wakeverb
arouse or excite feelings and passions;
Wakeverb
make aware of;
Wakeverb
cause to become awake or conscious;
Wake
In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or the wave pattern on the water surface downstream of an object in a flow, or produced by a moving object (e.g. a ship), caused by density differences of the fluids above and below the free surface and gravity (or surface tension).
Awakeadjective
Not asleep; conscious.
Awakeadjective
Alert, aware.
Awakeverb
(intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
Awakeverb
(transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
Awakeverb
(transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
Awakeverb
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
Awakeverb
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
Awakeverb
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Awakeverb
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
Awakeverb
To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
Awakeadjective
Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Awakeverb
stop sleeping;
Awakeadjective
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious;
Awakeadjective
not unconscious; especially having become conscious;
Awakeadjective
(usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive;