wake up

Questions about wake up

What does wake up mean?

wake up means "cause to become awake or conscious". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wake up?

Close synonyms include awaken, wake, waken, rouse, arouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wake up?

The recorded antonyms are fall asleep.

Is wake up a common word?

wake up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.