lie awake

1. 1.

   lie without sleeping

   “She was so worried, she lay awake all night long”

   Broaderlie

Questions about lie awake

What does lie awake mean?

lie awake means "lie without sleeping".

Is lie awake a common word?

lie awake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.