wake

1 /weIk/ verb past tense woke, or waked AmE past participle woken or waked AmE (I, T) also wake up to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping: James usually wakes up early. | I'll wake you up when it's time to leave. | Try not to wake the baby. wake up phrasal verb (I, T)

1 to start to listen or pay attention to something: Wake up! (=give me your attention): Wake up at the back there!

2 wake up and smell the coffee AmE spoken used to tell someone to recognize the truth or reality of something

wake (up) to phrasal verb (T)

1 to experience something as you are waking up: Nancy woke to the sound of birds outside her window.

2 to start to realize and understand a danger, an idea etc: It's time you woke up to the fact that it's a tough world out there.

2 noun (C)

1 in the wake of if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a result of it: Famine followed in the wake of the drought.

2 in sb's/sth's wake behind or after someone or something: The car left clouds of dust in its wake.

3 the time before a funeral when friends and relatives meet to remember the dead person

4 the track made behind a boat as it moves through the water