Wake up meaning
Wake up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to become conscious after sleep, or to cause another person to do so.
- Past simple
- woke up
- Past participle
- woken up
- -ing form
- waking up
What wake up means
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To become conscious after sleep, or to cause another person to do so
I woke up just before the alarm went off.
1 more meaning of wake up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With wake: wake up to.
With up: pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up, break up.
Common questions
What does wake up mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to become conscious after sleep, or to cause another person to do so. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of wake up?
Woke up. The past participle is woken up.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
