awake
US: /əˈweɪk/
UK: /ɐwˈeɪk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
awake /ə'weik/- ngoại động từ, awoke; awoke, awoked
- đánh thức, làm thức dậy
- (nghĩa bóng) làm thức tỉnh, làm tỉnh ngộ, làm cho nhận thức ra
- to awake somebody to the sense of duty: làm cho ai nhận thức ra ý thức bổn phận
- (nghĩa bóng) khêu gợi, gợi
- to awake someone's interest: gợi sự thích thú của ai
- nội động từ
- thức dậy
- (nghĩa bóng) thức tỉnh, tỉnh ngộ, nhận thức ra
- to awake to the responsibilities of one's new position: nhận thức ra trong trách nhiệm trong cương vị công tác của mình
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb+ adjective [not before noun] not asleep (especially immediately before or after sleeping): to be half / fully awake + to be wide awake (= fully awake) + I was still awake when he came to bed. + The noise was keeping everyone awake. + I was finding it hard to stay awake. + He lies awake at night worrying about his job. + She was awake (= not unconscious) during the operation on her leg.
+ verb (awoke ) (formal)
1 ~ (sb) (from / to sth) to wake up; to make sb wake up: [V] I awoke from a deep sleep. + The girls awoke to the sound of rain rattling on the windows. + [V to inf] He awoke to find her gone. + [VN] Her voice awoke the sleeping child.
2 if an emotion awakes or sth awakes an emotion, you start to feel that emotion: [VN] His speech is bound to awake old fears and hostilities. [also V]
Phrasal Verbs: awake to sth to become aware of sth and its possible effects or results: It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
Compare: WAKE
WHICH WORD?
awake / awaken / wake up / waken
Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep:
The children woke me up. + I was woken (up) by the telephone.
The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature:
The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.
Awake is also an adjective: I was awake half the night worrying. + Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Look also at ASLEEP and the verb SLEEP.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 wake (up), awaken, get up, rouse or bestir oneself:
When I awoke, she was standing over me with a pistol.
2 awaken, animate, arouse, rouse, stimulate, revive, incite, excite, activate, alert, stir up, fan, kindle, ignite, fire:
Marches awaken my sense of patriotism.
3 awake to. awaken to, wake up to, realize, understand, become aware or conscious of:
I finally awoke to the fact that my tax return was overdue.
adj.
4 up, aroused, roused, wide awake, up and about, alert, on the alert, on the qui vive, watchful, on guard, attentive, conscious; heedful, alive:
I'm always awake a few minutes before the alarm goes off.
Collocation
VERBS
be, lie
At night, he lay awake beside her.
| come, jerk
Claudia came awake slowly. Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.
| keep, remain, stay
He was struggling to stay awake.
| jerk sb, jolt sb, nudge sb, shake sb
A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake.
| keep sb
The noise had kept her awake.
ADV.
fully, wide
By now, the baby was wide awake.
| hardly, only half
It was very early and I was only half awake.
| still
The children were still awake when we went out.
ADV.
early, late
She awoke early the next morning.
PREP.
from
I awoke from a deep sleep at six o'clock.
Concise dictionary
awoke|awoken|awakes|awakingə'weɪkverb
+stop sleeping
adj.
+not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
+not unconscious; especially having become conscious
+(usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive
