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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
awake
awake [awake awakes awoke awaking awoken] adjective, verb BrE [əˈweɪk] NAmE [əˈweɪk] adjective not before noun not asleep (especially immediately before or after sleeping) •to be half/fully awake •to be wide awake (= fully awake) • I was still awake when he came to bed. • The noise was keeping everyone awake. •I was finding it hard to stay awake. •He lies awake at night worrying about his job. •She was awake (= not unconscious) during the operation on her leg. Word Origin: Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (from a- ‘to, towards’ and ↑wake). Which Word?: awake / awaken / wake up / waken Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: ▪ What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: ▪ The children woke me up. ◇ ▪ I was woken (up) by the telephone. The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: ▪ She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: ▪ The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. Awake is also an adjective: ▪ I was awake half the night worrying. ◇ ▪ Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way. Look also at ↑asleep and the verb ↑sleep. Example Bank: •At night he lay awake beside her. •By now, the baby was wide awake. •Claudia came awake slowly. •He was struggling to stay awake. •It was very early and I was only half awake. •Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare. •The children were still awake when we went out. •The noise had kept her awake. Derived: ↑awake to something verb (awokeBrE [əˈwəʊk] ; NAmE [əˈwoʊk] , awokenBrE [əˈwəʊkən] ; NAmE [əˈwoʊkən] )(formal) 1. intransitive, transitive to wake up; to make sb wake up •~ (sb) (from/to sth) I awoke from a deep sleep. •The girls awoke to the sound of rain rattling on the windows. •~ to do sth He awoke to find her gone. •~ sb Her voice awoke the sleeping child. 2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) if an emotion awakes or sth awakes an emotion, you start to feel that emotion •His speech is bound to awake old fears and hostilities. Verb forms: Word Origin: Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (from a- ‘to, towards’ and ↑wake). Which Word?: awake / awaken / wake up / waken Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping: ▪ What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: ▪ The children woke me up. ◇ ▪ I was woken (up) by the telephone. The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke: ▪ She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: ▪ The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. Awake is also an adjective: ▪ I was awake half the night worrying. ◇ ▪ Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way. Look also at ↑asleep and the verb ↑sleep. Example Bank: •He awoke suddenly in a cold sweat. •I awoke from a deep sleep at six o'clock. •She awoke early the next morning.
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