“wake” – English explanatory dictionary

noun 1. white waves following a boat as it goes through the water ○ The ferry’s wake rocked the little boat. 2. □ in the wake of something following or immediately after something ○ The management has to decide what to do in the wake of the sales director’s resignation. 3. a meeting of people after a funeral

verb 1. to stop someone’s sleep ○ The telephone woke her or she was woken by the telephone. ○ I banged on her door, but I can’t wake her. ○ He asked to be woken at 7.00. 2. to stop sleeping ○ He woke suddenly, feeling drops of water falling on his head.

n. [Originally, an open space of water srrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vök a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.] 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.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waked or Woke ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wakn, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahhn, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. vajay to rouse, to impel. . Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.]
1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. “The father waketh for the daughter.” Ecclus. xlii. 9. “Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.” Milton. “I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.” Locke.
2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. “The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.” Shak.
3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; — often with up. “He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.” G. Eliot.
4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. “Gentle airs due at their hour
To fan the earth now waked.” Milton. “Then wake, my soul, to high desires.” Keble.

v. t. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake. “The angel … came again and waked me.” Zech. iv. 1.
2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. ´I shall waken all this company.´ Chaucer. “Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.” Milton. “Even Richard’s crusade woke little interest in his island realm.” J. R. Green.
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. “To second life
Waked in the renovation of the just.” Milton.
4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.