be awake

Verb

Meaning

be awake (third-person singular simple present is awake, present participle being awake, simple past was awake, past participle been awake)

To not sleep, to stay awake. (This entry is a translation hub.)

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. Walt Whitman

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. Abu Bakr

Every day I have to be awake to escape... The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life. Karel Appel

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. Annie Dillard

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. Henry David Thoreau

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. Henry David Thoreau

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