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wakes

We have found lemma(root) word of wakes : wake.

Definitions


[weɪk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- emerge or cause to emerge from sleep; stop sleeping
(e.g: she woke up feeling better)

- hold a vigil beside (someone who has died)
(e.g: we waked Jim last night)


Phrases:
- wake up and smell the coffee

Origin:
Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch


[weɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances
(e.g: he was attending a friend's wake)

- an annual festival and holiday held in some parts of northern England, originally one held in a rural parish on the feast day of the patron saint of the church
(e.g: his workers absented themselves for the local wakes)


Phrases:
- wake up and smell the coffee

Origin:
Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch


[weɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft


Phrases:
- in the wake of

Origin:
late 15th century (denoting a track made by a person or thing): probably via Middle Low German from Old Norse vǫk, vaka ‘hole or opening in ice’




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