awake

Definition

  • verb: to stop sleeping
  • verb: to cease sleeping
  • synonyms: wake, awaken, waken

Examples

  • It was quite late, but the children were still 'wide awake'. [=not tired at all]

  • One moment she was sleeping soundly—the next she was wide 'awake'.

  • How long will it take them to 'awake to' their mistake?

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - A kick. - What's a kick? EAMES: This, Ariadne, would be a kick. It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. - Snaps you out of the dream. - We gonna feel a kick with this sedation? YUSUF: That's the clever part. I customised the sedative to leave (..)
    2010 Inception
  • (..) Stop. You're gonna have to do better than that. That's more like it. COBB: They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now, that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything. Such as? Imagine you're designing a building. (..)
    2010 Inception