Word Meanings - AWAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as 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
Additional info about word: AWAKE
Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AWAKE)
- Revive
- Reanimate
- revivify
- resucitate
- refresh
- reassure
- recover
- awake
- live
- Wake
- Rouse
- suscitate
- excite
- reanimate
- revive
- watch
- revel
- evoke
- summon
- provoke
- call
Related words: (words related to AWAKE)
- RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - REVIVEMENT
Revival. - WATCHET
Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden. - WATCHDOG
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. - REVELLENT
Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - WATCHWORD
1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment - WATCH MEETING
A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. - REVIVE
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into - REVEL
See REVEAL - REVELATION
1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto - AWAKENING
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. - REFRESHMENT
1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - WATCHFUL
Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful - RECOVERANCE
Recovery. - REVELATOR
One who makes a revelation; a revealer. - SUMMONS
A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like. (more info) - AWAKENMENT
An awakening. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - DEATHWATCH
A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, - DOGWATCH
A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p.m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, P. M. Totten. - WIDE-AWAKE
Fully awake; not Dickens. - IRRECOVERABLE
Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.