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Awake vs Uprise - What's the difference?

awake | uprise |

As verbs the difference between awake and uprise

is that awake is (label) to become conscious after having slept while uprise is (archaic) to rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

As an adjective awake

is not asleep; conscious.

As a noun uprise is

the act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

awake

English

Adjective

(en-adj) (predicative only)
  • Not asleep; conscious.
  • (by extension) Alert, aware.

    • Synonyms

    * (conscious) conscious, lucid, wide awake

    Antonyms

    * (conscious) asleep, unconscious

    Verb

  • (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.
  • *:
  • *: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.

    • Synonyms

    * (to gain consciousness) awaken, wake up,

    Antonyms

    * (to gain consciousness) fall asleep

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * awake to * awaken * wake * wake up

    References

    * * * * * English irregular verbs

    uprise

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
    • The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.
  • (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
  • * Tennyson
    • Uprose the mystic mountain range.
  • To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
  • * 1998 , William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace (page 92)
    • They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

    • Related terms

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    References

    (Webster 1913)

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