A*wake" (&?;), v. t. [imp. Awoke (&?;), Awaked (&?;); p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. āwæcnan, v. i. (imp. awōc), and āwacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
Tennyson.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
Matt. viii. 25.

2. 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.

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
Goldsmith.

It way awake my bounty further.
Shak.

No sunny gleam awakes the trees.
Keble.

A*wake" (&?;), v. i. 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.

The national spirit again awoke.
Freeman.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
1 Cor. xv. 34.

A*wake", a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

Before whom awake I stood.
Milton.

She still beheld,
Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep.
Keats.

He was awake to the danger.
Froude.

• not asleep; conscious
  
• (vulgar) Acquainted with, knowing the business. Stow the books, the culls are awake; hide the cards, the fellows know what we intended to do.
  
• (intransitive) to wake up after having slept
  
• (transitive) to cause somebody to stop sleeping; to wake somebody up
  
• (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent
  
• awaken, wake up