Definitions for awake

awake a·wake

Spelling: [uh-weyk]
IPA: /əˈweɪk/

Awake is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in awake (aaekw).

Definitions for awake

adjective

  1. waking; not sleeping.
  2. vigilant; alert:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to wake up; rouse from sleep:
  2. to rouse to action; become active:
  3. to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant (often followed by to):

Origin of awake

before 1000; Middle English awaken, Old English awacen, past participle of awæcnan; see a1, waken

Examples for awake

She went into her father's room, where he was awake and wondering.

Yet it was incredible that Colonel Woodville and his daughter should not be awake.

But the moment suggests to him that if he is awake, then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined.

But how much nearer to him in reality was the child when awake and about the house?

The friends of pure and undefiled religion must awake to this danger.

Is it that it seems a strange and hideous dream, from which we will awake and rub our eyes?

Eighty-nine percent occurred when the person was awake, rather than dreaming or dozing.

How many times have your stories kept me awake at night wondering, like a child in the dark, what monsters lurk nearby?

My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.

There is one intensely sexual passage in which the protagonist cannot tell if he is sleeping or awake.

Word Value for awake
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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