verb

• (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
  "I woke up at four o'clock this morning."
• (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
  "The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream."
• (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
  "Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint."
• (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
  "and gentle Aires due at thir hour To fan the Earth now wak'd,"

noun

• (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
  "Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep."
• (historical, Church of England) A yearly 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.
  "1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England."
• (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.

noun

• (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
• (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
• (figuratively) The area behind something or somebody rapidly-moving
  "The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake."