WAKE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wake up mean? 

• WAKE UP (verb)
  The verb WAKE UP has 2 senses:

1. cause to become awake or conscious

2. stop sleeping

  Familiarity information: WAKE UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAKE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awaken; rouse; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

Please wake me at 6 AM.

Hypernyms (to "wake up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wake up"):

reawaken (awaken once again)

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken

Context example:

She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

Hypernyms (to "wake up" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

"Wake up" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

fall asleep (change from a waking to a sleeping state)

 Context examples 

Martin seemed suddenly to wake up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient wake up at night, dress, and plan to go out thinking that it is morning and time to start the day?

(NPI - Wake Up at Night, Dress, and Plan to Go Out, NCI Thesaurus)

He seemed to wake up all at once, and shook his head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The man sleep two days and wake up and go to sleep again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A level of sedation in which a person is in a deep sleep, loses feeling, and is hard to wake up.

(Deep sedation, NCI Dictionary)

You may not feel refreshed when you wake up.

(Insomnia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

There, I won't lecture any more, for I know you'll wake up and be a man in spite of that hardhearted girl.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)