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to wake up
01
to no longer be asleep
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
up
Base verb
wake
Present tense
wake up
3rd person singular
wakes up
Present participle
waking up
Past simple
woke up
Past participle
woken up
Examples
I remind her to wake up early for her flight tomorrow.
1.1
to cause a person or animal stop being asleep
Transitive: to wake up sb
Examples
Do n't forget to wake up your sister for school.
02
to become aware of something, especially something important, unpleasant, or surprising
Transitive: to wake up sb to sth
Examples
The financial struggle woke up the family to the importance of budgeting.
