wake (sb) up
(STOP SLEEPING) — phrasal verb with wake /weɪk/ verb [I or T] (past tense woke or waked, past participle woken or waked) (also wake up)Definition
A1 to (cause to) become conscious after sleeping: Come on, wake up - breakfast is ready. He woke himself up with his own snoring!Not sleeping and not unconscious
(Definition of wake (sb) up (STOP SLEEPING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- awaken verb
- awoke verb
- awoken verb
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round phrasal verb (BECOME CONSCIOUS)
- conscious adjective (AWAKE)
- consciousness noun (AWAKE)
- rise and shine! idiom
- rise verb (MOVE UP)
- riser noun (PERSON)
- rouse verb
- sit up phrasal verb (STAY AWAKE)
- sleepless adjective
- stir verb (MOVE)
- wait up phrasal verb
- wakeful adjective
- waken verb
- wakey-wakey exclamation
- waking adjective
- waking noun
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