1. • noun - the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
   • noun - an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
   • noun - the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
   • noun - a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
   • verb - be awake, be alert, be there
   • verb - stop sleeping
   • verb - arouse or excite feelings and passions
   • verb - make aware of
   • verb - cause to become awake or conscious
2. • To cease to sleep; become awake: overslept and woke late.
   • To stay awake: Bears wake for spring, summer, and fall and hibernate for the winter.
   • To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness: suddenly woke to the danger we were in.
   • To keep watch or guard, especially over a corpse.
   • To rouse from sleep; awaken.
   • To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities.
   • To make aware of; alert: The shocking revelations finally woke me to the facts of the matter.
   • To keep a vigil over.
   • To hold a wake over.
   • A watch; a vigil.
   • Also called viewing 3.
   • A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint.
   • The pairs wake, waken and awake, awaken have formed a bewildering array since the Middle English period.
   • The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water: the wake of a ship.
   • A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed: The war left destruction and famine in its wake.
   • Following directly on.
   • In the aftermath of; as a consequence of.
3. • v - to rouse from sleep

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