WAKE UP
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)
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)
