wake
verb
[ weɪk ]
• emerge or cause to emerge from sleep; stop sleeping.
• "she woke up feeling better"
Similar:
awake,
awaken,
waken (up),
rouse,
stir,
come to,
come around,
get up,
get out of bed,
bestir oneself,
get going,
come alive,
show signs of life,
arise,
waken,
arouse,
bring to,
bring around,
knock up,
Opposite:
sleep,
fall asleep,
• hold a vigil beside (someone who has died).
• "we waked Jim last night"
wake
noun
• a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances.
• "he was attending a friend's wake"
• an annual festival and holiday held in some parts of northern England, originally one held in a rural parish on the feast day of the patron saint of the church.
• "his workers absented themselves for the local wakes"
Origin:
Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc ), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen ; compare with watch.
wake
noun
• a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.
Origin:
late 15th century (denoting a track made by a person or thing): probably via Middle Low German from Old Norse vǫk, vaka ‘hole or opening in ice’.
