word-vault/dist/data/cards/aw/awake.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "awake",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not asleep (especially immediately before or after sleeping)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to be **half/fully awake**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to be **wide awake** *(= fully awake)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was still awake when he came to bed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The noise was **keeping** everyone **awake**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was finding it hard to **stay awake**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **lies awake** at night worrying about his job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was awake *(= not unconscious)* during the operation on her leg."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was very early and I was only half awake."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Claudia came awake slowly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "lie", "come"],
                "adverb": ["fully", "wide", "barely"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪk/",
                "audio": "aw/awake/awake__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪk/",
                "audio": "aw/awake/awake__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English āwæcnan, āwacian, both used in the sense ‘come out of sleep’ (from a- ‘to, towards’ and wake)."
}