awake
v.v. to stop sleeping and become conscious again. You can also use it to describe making someone else stop sleeping.
v. to cease sleeping or to rouse someone from sleep. Often used in a literary or formal register compared to 'wake up'; functions as both transitive and intransitive.
I usually awake at six in the morning.
The sound of heavy rain against the window caused her to awake suddenly in the middle of the night.
The protagonist began to awake to the harsh realities of his situation, realizing that his previous assumptions had been entirely unfounded.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken English awake From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake.
The verb is irregular (awake, awoke, awoken). It is often used intransitively, but can take a direct object when used to mean 'to rouse someone'.
I was awake by the noise.I was awoken by the noise.Learners often use the base form 'awake' or the adjective 'awake' instead of the past participle 'awoken' in passive structures.