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awake

adjective as in conscious; alert

verb as in become alert or cause to rise from sleep

verb as in become or make aware

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Example Sentences

Soon, the tired group got a third wind, and when she called “action” for the next take, “it looked like a party and people were awake and they were laughing,” she recalls.

The sleep group had a 45-minute nap, while the wake group remained awake, watching a documentary.

She lay awake frozen in fear all night and in the morning he left.

From BBC

The night before the fire exploded, the eerie howl of the Santa Ana winds kept some awake.

Dahlia Lithwick: What of all of the scenarios that you lay out in the book is the scenario that you lie awake sweating about?

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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