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Another word for wake

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Verb

  1. To cease sleeping

    See also:

    awareness

Noun

  1. A watch over the body of a dead person before burial

    See also:

    ritual

  2. Something that follows or is drawn along behind

    See also:

    precede

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Another word for wake

Noun

  1. A track

    See also:

    track

  2. A funeral

    See also:

    funeral

Verb

  1. To waken another

  2. To become awake

  3. To begin to comprehend

    See also:

    understand

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • My flight was delayed an hour so my early wake up was in vain.

  • I didn't want to wake you.

  • They still seemed to think that he might wake up at any time, though.

  • I read that when people wake up from a coma, it's always gradual.

  • I don.t think he.ll wake up soon.

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