to wake
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4.8
- verb
- /weɪk/
:
concienciar
- Commentators are saying Americans woke up on September 12 to a different world.
- wake people to
Friction is how your life teaches you to wake up and pay attention.
- Friction is how your life teaches you to wake up and pay attention.
- It's it's the most it's a radical thing to wake up to reality.
- And, and, and, and at the end of the day, I think what we, what we do when we're going out talking at these seminars and things are really trying to wake people up.
- I do think, you know, people like yourselves going out and, and, and, and having these conversations which need to be had is going to wake people up.
- I just personally think that institutions are going to wake up over the next few days and go, let's look at Rivian's financials.
- That people better wake up to what's going on?
- So the challenge is how do we wake ourselves and the consumers up from the Commission coma or, or do you just accept the inevitable?
- Because if you think cheaters never win, wake up.
- You have to wake up and see the world in a different way.
- But unfortunately, it took that for a lot of people to wake up and get things straight.
Examples
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I do think, you know, people like yourselves going out and, and, and, and having these conversations which need to be had is going to wake people up.
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Allan was finally waking up to the truth about the woman he was married to.
Fiction book (1992) -
I hate to wake you up to say good-bye
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That people better wake up to what's going on?
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How many more need to die until we wake up to realise that it is not OK?
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You may have gone to bed, thinking this election was headed one way and then you woke up and you saw things were different.
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On the morning after Election Day, college leaders woke up to the realization that they were the "other."
Academic text (2017) -
Every day he wakes up, that kid chooses life.
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I had just woken up, looked out my window just in time to see you vanish.
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The documentary aims to wake people up to the importance of climate change.
Synonyms
131
3.7
To make someone feel a strong emotion
71
4.8
To bring a memory, image, or feeling to mind
70
4.1
Make people feel excited and ready to act
48
4.8
To make people feel strong emotions like anger or fear
47
4.4
To cause strong feelings in someone
35
3.7
To make someone become aware of something for the first time
1
9.2
To make someone feel a strong emotion
To make someone feel strong excitement or deep emotion
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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8.2
A 1941 World War II battle in which Japanese forces captured Wake Island from outnumbered American marines
1
8.6
A battle in December 1941 where Japan captured Wake Island after American marines fought hard
A low plant with white flowers that lives for many years in southeastern United States woods
- Specialized
A wildflower with dark purple flowers without stems that grows in central United States prairies
- Jargon
A sound that makes people get out of bed, often used in camps or the military
- Specialized
An electronic signal that makes a device leave sleep mode and start working
- US
A woodland plant with three leaves and one three-petaled flower common in North America
How Affected
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Etymology
Wake The verb wake meaning to arouse feelings uses the same idea as 'wake up' — to bring something out of sleep or silence — so to wake memories or emotions is to make them active again.