Meaning of wake In English

• 0 to (cause someone to) become awake and conscious after sleeping:

  • Did you wake at all during the night?

  • Please wake me early tomorrow.

  • I woke up with a headache.

  • Jane's hand on my shoulder woke me out of/from a bad dream.

• 1 the waves that a moving ship or object leaves behind:

  • The wake spread out in a v-shape behind the ship.

• 2 an occasion when the family and friends of a dead person meet in order to look at the dead body the night before it is buried, or when they meet after a dead person has been buried to drink and talk about the person's life

• 3 to become awake and conscious after sleeping, or to cause someone to stop sleeping:

  • [ I ] Did you wake at all during the night?

  • [ T ] The noise of the storm woke the kids.

• 4 an area of water whose movement has been changed by a boat or ship moving through it:

  • fig. The storm left a massive amount of destruction in its wake.

• 5 a gathering held before a dead person is buried, at which family and friends talk about the person’s life