wake up


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Verb1.wake up - cause to become awake or consciouswake up - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
awaken, waken, rouse, wake, arouse
reawaken - awaken once again
bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around - return to consciousness; "These pictures bring back sad memories"
call - rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
2.wake up - stop sleepingwake up - stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
awake, come alive, wake, waken, awaken, arouse
change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
dope off, doze off, drift off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off, drop off - change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures"
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Translations
صحىيَسْتَيْقِظيَسْتَيْقِظُيَعي، يُصْبِحُ يَقِظا لِ
probudit se
blive klar overvågne
herätä
probuditi se
felébredfelébresztfelkeltfelocsúdik
vaknavakna til meîvitundar um
目が覚める
잠에서 깨다
vakna
ตื่นขึ้น
thức giấc

w>wake up

vi (lit, fig) → aufwachen; to wake up to something (fig) → sich (dat) → einer Sache (gen) → bewusst werden; I wish he’d wake up to what’s happening → ich wünschte, ihm würde endlich bewusst or aufgehen or klar, was (hier) vor sich geht; he woke up to a new life → ein neues Leben brach für ihn an; wake up and smell the coffee! (esp US inf) → wach endlich auf!
vt sep (lit) → aufwecken; (fig: = rouse from sloth) → wach- or aufrütteln; to wake somebody up to something (fig) → jdm etw klarmachen or bewusst machen or vor Augen führen; to wake one’s ideas up → sich zusammenreißen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wake1

(weik) – past tense woke (wouk) (rare) waked: past participle woken (ˈwoukən) , (rare) waked – verb
to bring or come back to consciousness after being asleep. He woke to find that it was raining; Go and wake the others, will you?
ˈwakeful adjective
1. not asleep; not able to sleep. a wakeful child.
2. (of a night) in which one gets little sleep. We spent a wakeful night worrying about her.
ˈwakefully adverb
ˈwakefulness noun
ˈwaken verb
to wake. What time are you going to waken him?; I wakened early.
wake up
1. to wake. Wake up! You're late; The baby woke up in the middle of the night.
2. to become aware of. It is time you woke up to the fact that you are not working hard enough.
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wake up

→ يَسْتَيْقِظُ probudit se vågne aufwachen ξυπνώ despertarse herätä se réveiller probuditi se svegliarsi 目が覚める 잠에서 깨다 wakker worden våkne (opp) obudzić się acordar просыпаться vakna ตื่นขึ้น uyanmak thức giấc 醒来
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