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wide-awake

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wide-a·wake (wd-wk)
adj.
1. Completely awake.
2. Alert; watchful.
n.
See sooty tern.
widea·wakeness n.
wide-awake
Adjective
fully awake
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.wide-awakewide-awake - fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"
unsleeping
awake - not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake"
2.wide-awakewide-awake - fully alert and watchful; "played heads-up ball"
heads-up
alert, watchful - engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
Translations
Spanish wide-awake [waɪdəˈweɪk] adj → bien despierto
French wide-awake [waɪdəˈweɪk] adj → bien éveillé(e)
German wide-awake [waɪdəˈweɪk] wide adj → hellwach
Italian wide-awake [waɪdəˈweɪk] adj → completamente sveglio/a
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I at once spurred alongside Raffles, as he rode, bronzed and bearded, with warworn wide-awake over eyes grown keen as a hawk's, and a cutty-pipe sticking straight out from his front teeth.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
After I had fallen over eight or nine precipices and thus found out that one half of my brain had been asleep eight or nine times without the wide-awake, hard-working other half suspecting it, the periodical unconsciousnesses began to extend their spell gradually over more of my brain-territory, and at last I sank into a drowse which grew deeper and deeper and was doubtless just on the very point of being a solid, blessed dreamless stupor, when--what was that?
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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