wake

Definitions of wake in various dictionaries:

noun - the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

noun - an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

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

noun - a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

verb - be awake, be alert, be there

verb - stop sleeping

verb - arouse or excite feelings and passions

verb - make aware of

verb - cause to become awake or conscious

To cease to sleep; become awake: overslept and woke late.

To stay awake: Bears wake for spring, summer, and fall and hibernate for the winter.

To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness: suddenly woke to the danger we were in.

To keep watch or guard, especially over a corpse.

To rouse from sleep; awaken.

To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities.

To make aware of; alert: The shocking revelations finally woke me to the facts of the matter.

To keep a vigil over.

To hold a wake over.

A watch; a vigil.

Also called viewing 3.

A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint.

The pairs wake, waken and awake, awaken have formed a bewildering array since the Middle English period.

The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water: the wake of a ship.

A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed: The war left destruction and famine in its wake.

Following directly on.

In the aftermath of; as a consequence of.

verb - to rouse from sleep

WAKE - In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity,...