Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
- 2intransitive verb
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
- 3intransitive verb
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- 4intransitive verb
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
- 5intransitive verb
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- 6transitive verb
To rouse from sleep; to awake.
- 7transitive verb
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- 8transitive verb
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
- 9transitive verb
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- 10noun
The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
- 11noun
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
- 14noun
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
"there's no weeping at an Irish wake"
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- 15noun
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
"the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"
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- 16noun
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
- 17noun
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"
- 18verb
stop sleeping
"She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
- 19verb
cause to become awake or conscious
"He was roused by the drunken men in the street"
"Please wake me at 6 AM."
- 20verb
be awake, be alert, be there
- 21verb
make aware of
"His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"
- 22verb
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"
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