wake

Definitions

• (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
• (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
• (transitive) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
• (intransitive) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
• To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
• To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
• To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
• (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
• (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.