English-Spanish translations for awake

• despierto
  Señor Presidente, señor Comisario, es tarde, pero estamos despiertos, muy despiertos incluso. Mr President, Commissioner, it is late, but we are awake, wide-awake even.
  ¿Tienen problemas para mantenerse despiertos a esas horas del día? Do they have problems keeping awake so late in the day?
  Incluso sus movimientos más pequeños te mantienen despierto durante la noche. Even its smallest movements were likely to keep you awake at night.
• despertar
  La historia, tal como Stephen Daedelus nos recuerda en el de James Joyce, es una pesadilla de la que intentamos despertar. History, as Stephen Daedelus reminded us in James Joyce's , is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.
  El Sr. Watson ha recordado que un escritor irlandés escribió una vez que «la historia es una pesadilla de la que intentamos despertar». Mr Watson recalled that one Irish writer once wrote that 'history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake'.
• despertarse
• listo

Definition of awake

• Not asleep; conscious
• Alert, aware
• To become conscious after having slept
• To cause to stop sleeping
• to excite or to stir up something latent
• To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy

Examples

• They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales

Related words

• woke