wake up
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Verb
wake up (third-person singular simple present wakes up, present participle waking up, simple past woke up or waked up, past participle woken up or waked up)
- (intransitive) To awaken.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
- 1967, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, "A Day in the Life":
- "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head"
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- (transitive) To awaken somebody.
- Wake your brother up; it's time for school.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
- It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. […] You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”
- (intransitive) To become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand.
- Some businesses were slow to wake up to the importance of the Internet.
- That's the third time you've made the same mistake. Wake up!
Derived terms
See also
- dawn on someone
- see daylight
Translations
to (become) awake
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to awaken (someone else)
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to become more aware of a real-life situation.
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