wake

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of WAKE

to cause to stop sleeping <my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife>

Synonyms arouse, awake, awaken, knock up [British], rouse, waken

Related Words roust, rout; raise, revive; reawaken, rewake; agitate, bestir, disturb, excite, provoke, stimulate, stir

Near Antonyms hypnotize, mesmerize

Antonyms lull

to cease to be asleep <I woke with a start when the door slammed>

Synonyms arouse, awake, awaken, rouse, waken

Related Words arise, get up, rise, roll out, turn out, uprise; watch; revive; reawaken, rewake; shift, stir

Near Antonyms catnap, conk (off or out), doze, drop off, nap, nod, rest, sleep, slumber, snooze; bed (down), couch, doss (down) [chiefly British], flop, kip (down) [British], retire, sack out, turn in; lie up, sleep in; oversleep

to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk <a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving>

Synonyms advise, alert, caution, forewarn, wake

Related Words augur, forecast, foretell, harbinger, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy; apprise, inform, notify, tip (off); admonish; bode, forebode (also forbode), foreshadow, foretoken, portend

Near Antonyms imperil, risk

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