wake up
phr. v..phr. v.. To stop sleeping and become conscious. You do this every morning when your alarm rings or the sun comes up.
phr. v.. To cease sleeping and regain consciousness. It can be used intransitively (e.g., 'I woke up') or transitively and separably (e.g., 'The noise woke me up').
I wake up at 7 a.m. every day.
The loud thunder during the storm last night woke up the entire family.
After the long flight, I was so tired that not even the hotel's blaring fire alarm was loud enough to wake me up.
From wake + up.
Often used with a time, or with a cause like a noise or an alarm clock.
Contrast with 'get up' (to leave bed); a person can wake up but decide to stay in bed for a while before they get up.
He waked up late yesterday.He woke up late yesterday.'Wake' is an irregular verb; its simple past tense is 'woke'.