WAKE UP

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• WAKE UP (verb)

Meaning:

Cause to become awake or conscious

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context examples:

He was roused by the drunken men in the street / 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

Meaning:

Stop sleeping

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

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)