Word Meanings - WAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake

Additional info about word: WAKE

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WAKE)

• Alarm Warn
• wake
• terrify
• intimidate
• frighten
• Dirge
• Requiem
• lament
• threnody
• elegy
• coronach
• Enliven
• Wake
• cheer
• vivify
• quicken
• invigorate
• exhilarate
• rouse
• inspirit
• excite
• animate
• Watch
• Wait
• contemplate
• observe
• note
• tend
• guard

Related words: (words related to WAKE)

• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• DIRGEFUL
  Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.