wake

wake is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
2. intransitive verb. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
3. intransitive verb. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
4. intransitive verb. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
5. intransitive verb. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
6. transitive verb. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
7. transitive verb. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
8. transitive verb. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
9. transitive verb. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
10. noun. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
11. noun. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
12. noun. An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
13. noun. The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
14. noun. a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

    "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"

    Synonyms: viewing

15. noun. the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

    "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

    Synonyms: backwash

16. noun. an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
17. noun. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

    "the aftermath of war"

    "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

    Synonyms: aftermath, backwash

18. verb. stop sleeping

    "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"

    Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, waken

19. verb. cause to become awake or conscious

    "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"

    "Please wake me at 6 AM."

    Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, waken

20. verb. be awake, be alert, be there
21. verb. make aware of

    "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"

22. verb. arouse or excite feelings and passions

    "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"

    "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"

    Synonyms: heat, ignite, inflame

Synonyms

viewing, backwash, aftermath, arouse, awake, awaken, waken, rouse, heat, ignite, inflame

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wake:

weak, weka

Common word forms

waked, waker, wakes, waking, wakeful, wakeless

Words from these letters

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