word-vault/dist/data/cards/wa/wake.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "wake",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "wake",
            "heSheIt": "wakes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "woke",
        "pastParticiple": "woken",
        "ingForm": "waking"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to stop sleeping; to make somebody stop sleeping",
            "sensetop": "wake upwake to somethingwake from somethingwake up to do somethingwake to do somethingwake somebodywake somebody up",
            "labels": "(formal)(formal)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I always wake early in the summer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tom woke with a start and lifted his head."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What time do you usually wake up in the morning?",
                    "contextForm": "wake up"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I woke up an hour earlier than I wanted to."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They woke to a clear blue sky.",
                    "contextForm": "wake to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I woke to the sound of heavy rain outside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had just woken from a deep sleep.",
                    "contextForm": "wake from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He woke up to find himself alone in the house.",
                    "contextForm": "wake up to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The woman woke to see the defendant in her bedroom.",
                    "contextForm": "wake to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was woken by the sound of someone moving around.",
                    "contextForm": "wake somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try not to wake the baby up.",
                    "contextForm": "wake somebody up"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Any minute now she'd wake up to find herself at home safe in bed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Be careful not to wake the children!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had just woken up from a deep sleep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had woken even earlier than usual."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["gently"],
                "verb + wake": ["be careful not to", "not want to", "try not to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody remember something or feel something again",
            "sensetop": "wake something",
            "labels": "(literary or formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The incident woke memories of his past sufferings."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/weɪk/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/wake__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/weɪks/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/wakes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wəʊk/",
                "audio": "wo/wake/woke__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊkən/",
                "audio": "wo/wake/woken__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈweɪkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/waking__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/weɪk/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/wake__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/weɪks/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/wakes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wəʊk/",
                "audio": "wo/wake/woke__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊkən/",
                "audio": "wo/wake/woken__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈweɪkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wa/wake/waking__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "verb Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch."
}