wake
To stop sleeping and open your eyes.
To stop sleeping and become aware of your surroundings.
To make someone stop sleeping.
To cause someone to stop sleeping and become conscious.
The waves made behind a boat as it moves.
The disturbed area of water left behind a boat or ship as it moves forward.
A meeting of family and friends before or after a funeral to remember someone who died.
A social gathering, often with food and drink, held before or after a funeral to remember and honor someone who has died.
The time or events that happen after something important, often bad, has happened.
The period or situation that follows an important event, often one with significant effects or changes.
- Base: wake
- Plural: wakes
- Base: wake
- 3rd Person Singular: wakes
- Present Participle: waking
- Past: waked, woke
- Past Participle: waked, woken
in the wake of [something]
1Happening after and because of something else
Happening after something else, usually bad, and because of it.
- Many changes were made in the wake of the accident.
- In the wake of the scandal, he resigned from his position.
wake someone up
1Cause someone to stop sleeping
To make someone stop sleeping.
- Can you wake me up at 7 a.m.?
- Don't wake her up yet; she's still tired.
wake up
1Stop sleeping and become conscious
To stop sleeping and open your eyes.
- I usually wake up early on weekdays.
- Wake up! You're going to be late for school.
wake up
1stop sleeping
To stop being asleep, or to make another person stop sleeping.
- I usually wake up before my alarm goes off.
- Please wake me up at six tomorrow.
- The baby woke up during the night.
- I wake up at 7 every morning.
- Can you wake me up before breakfast?