Definition von „awake“ auf Englisch

adjective

1. Not asleep; conscious.

2. (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.

   • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

3. (transitive) To make aware of something.

4. (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.

5. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

6. (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.