English words for 'Barely awake.'
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adj
adj
adj
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
adj
adj
- barely able to be perceived
- incapable of physical sensation
- unresponsive to stimulation
- unaware of or indifferent to
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
adj
- Feeble, faint.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
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verb
noun
verb
- (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.
- To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
- (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
- (transitive) To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation.
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
noun
adj
verb
- stop sleeping
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
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adj
adj
noun
adj
adj
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active
noun
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- retreat
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- (intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.
- (intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
- (intransitive, slang) To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically.
noun
- awakening from sleep
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- to begin moving
- to evoke sexual feelings
- cause to be alert and energetic
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- stop sleeping
- (transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.
- (transitive) To wake from sleep or stupor; to rouse.
- (transitive) To sexually stimulate.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To cause an erection of the penis or other physical signs of sexual arousal, such as fluid secretion.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- make aware
- stop sleeping
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (rare) past participle of awake
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
- (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- force or drive out
- become active
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
noun
verb
- (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.
- To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
- (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
- (transitive) To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation.
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
noun
adj
noun
- awakening from sleep
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
noun
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- retreat
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- (intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.
- (intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
- (intransitive, slang) To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- to begin moving
- to evoke sexual feelings
- cause to be alert and energetic
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- stop sleeping
- (transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.
- (transitive) To wake from sleep or stupor; to rouse.
- (transitive) To sexually stimulate.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To cause an erection of the penis or other physical signs of sexual arousal, such as fluid secretion.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- make aware
- stop sleeping
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (rare) past participle of awake
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
- (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- force or drive out
- become active
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
adj
adj
adj
adj
adj
- barely able to be perceived
- incapable of physical sensation
- unresponsive to stimulation
- unaware of or indifferent to
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
adj
- Feeble, faint.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
noun
verb
adj
verb
- stop sleeping
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
adj
adj
adj
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active