wake🔊

(often followed by ''up'') To stop sleeping. +

(often followed by ''up'') To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. +

(figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. +

(figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. +

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. +

To be or remain awake; not to sleep. +

(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch +

(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

(Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.

(poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.

(collective) A number of vultures assembled together.

(nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.

The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.

(aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.

(figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.

(physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.