Arose vs Awake - What's the difference?
arose | awake |
(arise)
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 arose and awake
is that arose is simple past of arise while awake is to become conscious after having slept.As an adjective awake is
not asleep; conscious.arose
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Verb
(head)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 .