Word Meanings - WAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake
Additional info about word: WAKE
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WAKE)
- Alarm Warn
- wake
- terrify
- intimidate
- frighten
- Dirge
- Requiem
- lament
- threnody
- elegy
- coronach
- Enliven
- Wake
- cheer
- vivify
- quicken
- invigorate
- exhilarate
- rouse
- inspirit
- excite
- animate
- Watch
- Wait
- contemplate
- observe
- note
- tend
- guard
Related words: (words related to WAKE)
- GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - LAMENTING
Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak. - 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. - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - 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. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - VIVIFY
To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym: - GUARDER
One who guards. - 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. - GUARDANT
See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak. - CHEERINESS
The state of being cheery. - GUARDS
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards." - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - DIRGEFUL
Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge. - CHEERISNESS
Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. - UPCHEER
To cheer up. Spenser. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - FILAMENTOUS
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.