wake : Idioms & Phrases

• noun in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
  Battle of Wake.
  

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• noun in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
  Battle of Wake.
  

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• noun a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States
  dwarf-white trillium; snow trillium.
  

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• the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. Prov Eng. Chaucer.

Webster 1913

• noun trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers
  Trillium recurvatum; prairie trillium.
  

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• noun a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat
  wakeboard.
  

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• noun an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
  Wake.
  

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• the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. Obs.

Webster 1913

• verb cause to become awake or conscious
  awaken; waken; arouse; wake; rouse.
  
  • He was roused by the drunken men in the street
  • Please wake me at 6 AM.
• verb stop sleeping
  waken; come alive; arouse; wake; awake; awaken.
  
  • She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock

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• noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
  trillium; wood lily.
  
• noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
  Arisaema atrorubens; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
  

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Wake"-rob`in noun

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1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). ✍ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

Webster 1913

• noun a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected
  
  • the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security
• noun a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)
  
  • she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m.

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• noun (military) signal to wake up
  reveille.
  

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• noun the act of waking
  awakening; wakening.
  
  • it was an early awakening
  • it was the waking up he hated most

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