intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To cease to sleep; become awake.

intransitive verb. To stay awake.

intransitive verb. To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness.

intransitive verb. To hold or attend the wake of someone who has died.

intransitive verb. To cause to come out of sleep; awaken.

intransitive verb. To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse.

intransitive verb. To make aware; alert or enlighten.

noun. A gathering of people in the presence of the body of a deceased person in order to honor the person and console one another.

noun. undefined

noun. A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint.

noun. An annual vacation.

noun. The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water.

noun. A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed.

idiom. (in the wake of) Following directly on.

idiom. (in the wake of) In the aftermath of; as a consequence of.

To be awake; continue awake; refrain from sleeping.

To be excited or roused from sleep; cease to sleep; awake; be awakened: often followed by a redundant or intensive up.

To keep watch; watch while others sleep; keep vigil; especially, to watch a night with a corpse.

To be active; not to be quiescent.

To be excited from a torpid or inactive state, either physical or mental; be put in motion or action.

To hold a late revel; carouse late at night.

To return to life; be aroused from the sleep of death; live.

To rouse from sleep; awake; awaken: often followed by a redundant or intensive up.

To watch by night; keep vigil with or over; especially, to hold a wake over, as a corpse. See wake, n., 3.

To arouse; excite; put in motion or action: often with up.

To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; revive; reanimate.

To disturb; break.

noun. The act of waking, or the state of being awake; the state of not sleeping.

noun. The act of watching or keeping vigil, especially for a solemn or festive purpose; a vigil; specifically, an annual festival kept in commemoration of the completion and dedication of a parish church; hence, a merrymaking; a festive gathering.

noun. An all-night watch by the body of the dead, before burial.

noun. The track left by a ship or other moving object in the water.

noun. Hence, a track of any kind; a course of any nature that has already been followed by another thing or person.

noun. A row of damp green grass.

noun. The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track.

intransitive verb. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

intransitive verb. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

intransitive verb. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

intransitive verb. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

transitive verb. To rouse from sleep; to awake.

transitive verb. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

transitive verb. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.

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

noun. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.

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

noun. undefined

noun. An annual 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, often to excess.

noun. The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.

noun. the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above.

noun. A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.

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Ache  Blake  Drake  Haik  Jake  

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woke  woken  

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