Clues for the word "WAKE"
We've had 98 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 203 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of wake
- n. - The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
- v. i. - To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
- v. i. - To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- v. i. - To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
- v. i. - To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- v. t. - To rouse from sleep; to awake.
- v. t. - To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- v. t. - To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
- v. t. - To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- n. - The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
- n. - The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- n. - An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- n. - The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Referring Clues
- Ship's trail
- Stir
- Boat follower
- Boat trailer
- Rouse
- Twister's trail
- Aftermath
- Bring around
- Boat trailer?
- Rouse from slumber
- Danger for small craft
- Backwash
- Tornado's path
- Bubbles behind the boat
- Evidence of a tornado's path
- What a boat may leave behind
- Open one's eyes
- Waves behind a ship
- Come out of a coma
- Have an eye-opening experience?
- Stop sleeping, with "up"
- Water line?
- Water skier's challenge
- Waves from a liner
- Greet the day
- Rouse from sleep
- Boat's backwash
- Waves from a boat
- Track of waves
- "Finnegans ___" (Joyce)
- Part of an Irish funeral, traditionally
- Pacific island
- Become conscious
- Get up
- Come to
- Hypnotist's last word
- Funeral gathering
- Start the day
- Arouse from sleep
- Evidence of a ship's passing
- Boat's trail
- Hear the alarm
- Arouse
- Respond to reveille
- Path left behind
- Stop dozing
- After-life gathering?
- Trawler's trail
- What might give a water-skier trouble
- Lose sleep?
- Hear the rooster
- Return from dreamland
- Waterskiing hurdle
- U.S. Pacific atoll
- ___ Forest University
- Speedboat follower
- Path behind a ship
- Excite
- Come around
- Stop sleeping
- Stop sleeping - we must entertain a king
- Funeral party
- Come to party after funeral
- Come to - track of boat
- Come to - funereal gathering
- Open one's eyes - funeral party
- Following a vigil
- Vigil - wash
- Vigil before (or party after) a funeral
- Respond to the alarm
- Preburial ritual
- Irish funeral party
- Come to the farewell party!
- Come to a party
- ___ Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham! hit from 1984
- Vigil
- Aftermath of festivities following a funeral?
- Funerary party
- Aftermath of funeral
- Come to watch
- The boat train!
- Water trailing a boat
- Shake, maybe
- Speedboat's trail
- Begin one's day
- Emerge from sleep
- End a snooze
- Kindle
- What's aft a ship's aft
- Waves from the back of a boat
- Motorboat's trail
- Water line?
- "___ up and smell the coffee!"
- Exit dreamland
- Hazard for a jet skier
- Boat trailer?
- Arise
- Ship follower
Last Seen In
- Daily American - December 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 21, 2025
- New York Times - October 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 29, 2025
- Daily American - July 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2025
- LA Times - April 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2025
- USA Today - March 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 31, 2024
- Daily American - October 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 14, 2024
- New York Times - August 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 09, 2024
- USA Today - June 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 10, 2024
- USA Today - January 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2024
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