Definition of Awake

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Definition of Awake

Awake

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

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.

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.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

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Awake Quotations

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Awake Translations

awake in Dutch is wakker, wakend
awake in German is wach, erwachen, erwachen, wecken, munter, wach
awake in Italian is destare
awake in Portuguese is acorde
awake in Spanish is despertar
awake in Swedish is vaken, vakna

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