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say it: uh-WAYK
awake is an adjective and verb meaning "not in a state of sleep; completely conscious". It carries 3 recorded senses.
mentally perceptive and responsive
“an alert mind”
“alert to the problems”
“alive to what is going on”
“awake to the dangers of her situation”
“was now awake to the reality of his predicament”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for awake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.