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wake
wake1
(wāk),
n
---(Cont'd meaning of
'wake')
–n.
12. a watching, or
a watch kept, esp. for some solemn or ceremonial purpose. 13.
a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial,
sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking. 14. a local
annual festival in England, formerly held in honor of the patron
saint or on the anniversary of the dedication of a church but now
usually having little or no religious significance. 15. the
state of being awake: between sleep and wake.
—wak  er,
n.
—Syn. 8. arouse.
9. stimulate, activate, animate, kindle, provoke.
—Ant. 1. sleep.
wake2
(wāk),
n.
1. the track of waves
left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake
of the boat glowed in the darkness. 2. the path or course
of anything that has passed or preceded: The tornado left ruin in
its wake.
3. in the wake of,
a. as a result of:
An investigation followed in the wake of the scandal. b.
succeeding; following: in the wake of the pioneers.
[1540–50; < MLG, D
wake, or ON v bk
hole in the ice]
(Random
House Webster's Unabridged).
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Bill's old friends turned his wake into a party, on the
assumption that I he had been if he had been present he would had been
the first to break out the beer.
—— The Princeton Review in 'Word Smart II', 2001
Jonathan loves to stand at the back of
the ferry so he can watch the churning, roiling wake behind the
boat.
—— The Princeton Review in 'Word Smart II', 2001
How is it that Bill
Clinton's name barely comes up in the current firestorms over Enron, Tyco,
Kmart, Arthur Anderson, etc., etc.? All of these companies' problems didn't
develop overnight. They grew out of those turbulent years of Clinton Greed.
But, for some reason it was obvious to everyone that Enron was Bush's
fault, even though the company's problems developed under Clinton and
merely metastasized under Bush. It is flatly inconceivable that if similar
business upheavals occurred in the wake of Reagan's tenure that the media
wouldn't have made a huge deal about it. Indeed, Michael Milken was humiliated
and publicly destroyed (by a Republican named Rudy Giuliani by the way)
for "crimes" not one pundit in a hundred can explain —
because someone had to pay for the decade of greed.
—— Jonah Goldberg, 'The
Axis of Concern';
For Dems, passionate intensity is the measure of political worth.;
National Rivew; June 25, 2000
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