Definitions
Not asleep, or to stop sleeping.
Word origin
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
Used in a sentence
“By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.”
“They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”
“The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“No longer sleeping”5 letters
02“Not asleep”5 letters
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