Wake
noun
- 1.
- Wake of the boat ស្នាមទឹកវល់នៅក្រោយទូក នាវា ។ល។, in the wake of the war ស្ថានការណ៍បន្ដបន្ទាប់
- 2.
- (An all night vigil over a corpse before burial night vigil over a corpse before burial) ការកំដរខ្មោច
Example: The alarm wakes me, the flowers and trees wake in early spring.
verb — past tense: Woke ; past participle: Woken ; present participle: Waking ; 3rd person singular present Wakes
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to disturb with noise, to cause to reecho, to be or stay awake, to become active again, to become alert) ភ្ញាក់
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (usually fol. by up) (to wake from to arouse or excite) ដាស់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
- 2.
- The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
- 3.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- 4.
- An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- 5.
- The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
verb — past tense: Woke ; past participle: Woken ; present participle: Waking ; 3rd person singular present Wakes
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.