wake up

Formswakes up, waking up, woke up, woken up

1. 1
   from sleepphrasal verbintransitive

   To come out of sleep and be awake.

   I wake up at seven every morning.

   The baby woke up crying in the night.

   Similarawaken, waken

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2. 2
   from sleepphrasal verbtransitive

   To make someone stop sleeping.

   Please wake up your sister, because breakfast is ready.

   The thunder woke up everyone in the house.

   Similarrouse, awaken, waken

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3. 3
   become awarephrasal verbintransitive

   To start to see what is really going on, or to start paying attention.

   It's time to wake up and see that the old plan isn't working.

   Voters finally woke up to how much the new road would cost them.

   Similarawaken

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4. 4
   morning callnoun · wake-up

   Alternative form of wakeup. Use it for the act of waking up, or of being woken.

   Dad gave us a gentle wake-up at six.

   The hotel promised a wake-up at five, but nobody called.

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