different between irritate vs awake

English

Etymology

From Latin irr?t?tus, past participle of irr?t? (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????te?t/

Verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

1. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.

   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
3. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
4. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)

Synonyms

• provoke
• rile

Antonyms

• placate
• please
• soothe

Related terms

Translations

See also

• exasperate
• peeve
• disturb

Italian

Adjective

irritate

1. feminine plural of irritato

Verb

irritate

1. second-person plural present of irritare
2. second-person plural imperative of irritare
3. feminine plural past participle of irritare

Anagrams

• arteriti, atterrii, irretita, ritirate, tiritera, triterai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ir.ri??ta?.te/, [?r?i??t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ir.ri?ta.te/, [ir?i?t???t??]

Verb

irr?t?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of irr?t?

References

• irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).

Adjective

awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)

1. Not asleep; conscious.

   Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake; see also Thesaurus:awake

   Antonyms: asleep, unconscious; see also Thesaurus:asleep

2. (figuratively, by extension) Alert, aware.

   Synonyms: wary, woke; see also Thesaurus:vigilant

   Antonyms: heedless, oblivious

   • 1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"[1]:

     And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.

Derived terms

• half-awake
• unawake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English ?wacan and ?wacian, equivalent to a- +? wake.

Verb

awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)

1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

   Synonyms: awaken, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake

   Antonyms: fall asleep; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken

   Antonym: put to sleep

   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

3. (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

     The national spirit again awoke.

Derived terms

• awaker

Usage notes

For many speakers, this verb is commonly conflated with awaken (and, in such cases, lends some conjugational elements to it). See the usage notes at awaken for more details.

Translations

See also

• awake to
• awaken
• wake
• wake up
• woke

References

• “awake”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• awake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.