Arise vs Awake - What's the difference?
arise | awake |
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
* Bible, Exodus i. 8
* Milton
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
As verbs the difference between arise and awake
is that arise is to come up from a lower to a higher position while awake is to become conscious after having slept.As an adjective awake is
not asleep; conscious.arise
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Alternative forms
* arize (obsolete)Verb
- to arise from a kneeling posture
- A cloud arose and covered the sun.
- He arose early in the morning.
- There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph.
- the doubts that in his heart arose
- Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise .