Wake: Definition and part of speech

Wake

  1. n. The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
  2. v. i. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
  3. v. i. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
  4. v. i. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; — often with up.
  5. v. i. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
  6. v. t. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
  7. v. t. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
  8. v. t. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
  9. v. t. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
  10. n. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
  11. 1n. 1 The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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