awake
part of speech
adjective (awake); verb (awake, awakes, awoke, awoken — old-fashioned or in stories)
meaning for a pupil
1) Awake means not sleeping. tree →
2) To awake (or awaken) means to wake up or to make someone wake up. tree →
3) Wide awake means fully awake and alert. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and health, children who lie awake at night can feel sleepy at school; screens before bed can keep you awake. In science, nocturnal animals like owls and bats are awake at night and asleep in the day. In safety, drivers must stay awake and alert. In stories, «she lay awake listening to the storm» builds suspense, and fairy tales use «awoke».
examples
- Are you awake? tree →
- I lay awake thinking about the trip. tree →
- The noise kept me awake all night. tree →
- Owls are awake at night. tree →
- By six o'clock the baby was wide awake. tree →
- Try to stay awake until the end of the film. tree →
- Sleeping Beauty awoke after a hundred years. tree →
- Gerda lay awake for some time. tree →
note
As an adjective it comes after the noun or verb: «the baby is awake», not «the awake baby». Opposite «asleep». Everyday verb is «wake up» (woke up); «awake/awoke» is literary. «Awaken» is also formal.
In the corpora
- A local anaesthetic only numbs one part of the body, and the person stays awake.
- Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it.
- Screens in bed keep you awake, so many families keep screens downstairs at night.
- She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.
- That is why coffee and energy drinks keep people awake, and why chocolate can make a dog very ill.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «awake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.