wake(someone)up
phrasal verbwithwakeverb[IorT]uk/weɪk/us/weɪk/past tensewokeorwaked|past participlewokenorwaked(alsowake up)
(STOP SLEEPING)
A1
to (causeto)becomeconsciousaftersleeping:
Come on,wakeup -breakfastisready.
Hewokehimself up with his ownsnoring!
Synonyms
awakeliterary
awakenliterary
bestiryourselfformalorhumorous
rouse
See also
wakeverb
- Babysitting ismoneyforoldropeif thechildrendon'twakeup.
- I gave him anudgetowakehim up.
- I go tosleepon my back but I alwayswakeup in a differentposition.
- I'mprogrammedtowakeup at seven.
- Iwoketheothersup at six.
Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- anti-sleep
- astir
- be in the land of the livingidiom
- come round
- consciousness
- get up
- insomniac
- keepsomeoneup
- knock
- knock up
- land
- not sleep a winkidiom
- sit(someone)up
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wakeful
- waken
- waking
- woke
(REACT)
tostarttoreactto asituationafter aperiodin which you have done very little, or to make someonestarttoreactto asituation:
Companies need towakeup andpayattentionto the public'sincreasingconcernabout theenvironment.
Causing things to happen
- -induced
- activate
- activation
- actuation
- agent
- attribute
- attributesomethingtosomeone
- implementation
- in
- inaugurate
- inauguration
- pioneer
- reactivate
- realization
- realize
- reattribute
- reawaken
- render
- seed
- spark
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Reacting and responding