Awake \A*wake"\, v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

The national spirit again awoke. --Freeman.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not. --1 Cor. xv. 34.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.]

[AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]

1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. --Tennyson.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii. 25.

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. --Goldsmith.

It way awake my bounty further. --Shak.

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Awake \A*wake"\, a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.]

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

Before whom awake I stood. --Milton.

She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. --Keats.

He was awake to the danger. --Froude.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)