WAKE (3)

Wake (?), v. t. 1. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
The angel . . . came again and waked me. Zech. iv. 1. 2. 2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. “I shall waken all this company.” Chaucer.
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. J. R. Green. 3. 3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. Milton. 4. 4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.