awake

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awake is on the Basic English 850 List.
automatic - awake - baby

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Adjective[change]

Positive
awake

Comparative
more awake

Superlative
most awake

  1. (not before a noun) If you are awake, you are not asleep.
    It was 1:00 AM and Gerard was still awake.

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Verb[change]

Plain form
awake

Third-person singular
awakes

Past tense
awoke

Past participle
awoken

Present participle
awaking

a man awaking
Man awaking a child

Note: "Awaked" is another past and past participle of this verb.

  1. (transitive & intransitive) If someone awakes, they stop sleeping.
    She awoke with the dawn.
  2. (transitive & intransitive) If something awakes a feeling, it makes it happen.
    He awoke their resentment.

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