wake
/weɪk/
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Translation
To stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping.
Word origin
From Old English wacian, meaning to be awake.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- wacian
Grammar
Verb typeirregular (wake, wakes, woke, woken)
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
six .
"Wake" means to stop sleeping and open your eyes.
.
"Wakes" is the form used with he, she, or it.
barked.
"Woke" is the past form of "wake".
To wake is to stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping. The past form is "woke".
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