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View synonyms for wake-up

wake-up

[ weyk-uhp ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of waking up.
  2. an act or instance of being awakened:

    I asked the hotel desk for a wake-up at 6.

  3. a time of awaking or being awakened:

    I'll need a 5 o'clock wake-up to make the early plane.



adjective

  1. serving to wake one from sleep:

    Tell the front desk you want a wake-up call.

  2. serving to arouse or alert:

    a wake-up call on the problems of pollution.

wake-up

noun

  1. informal.
    an alert or intelligent person
  2. be a wake-up to informal.
    to be fully alert to (a person, thing, action, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wake-up1

First recorded in 1835–45; noun, adj. use of verb phrase wake up
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Example Sentences

However, we have just had a necessary wake-up call that all is not as secure as we believed.

No one is saying you wake up every morning hell-bent on killing unarmed black kids.

This slows the rate of all the above processes and increases the chances that someone can recover quickly enough to wake up.

It is not some benign magical sleep as shown on TV, where people wake up a year later and are instantly back to normal.

“I wake up and I pray, and then I see visions and I explain all those to my mom,” who would give her canvases to re-create them.

The latter gentleman was wondering whether he had fallen into a dream that he should wake up from in the morning.

Woman—Thou beest a sound sleeper—Wake up, and see to thy bairn, and I will gie thee both a good breakfast.

"Yes; and I went to sleep almost immediately, and did not wake up till very late next morning," she replied.

Altogether you see how well it would be if you could do anything to wake up the Post 267 Office.

Suddenly I heard a voice, which said, "Wake up," and I felt a hand touch the left side of my head.

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