"be awake" meaning in English

See be awake in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: is awake [present, singular, third-person], being awake [participle, present], was awake [past], been awake [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|be<is,being,was,been> awake}} be awake (third-person singular simple present is awake, present participle being awake, simple past was awake, past participle been awake)
  1. To not sleep, to stay awake. (This entry is a translation hub.) Translations (to not sleep): يَقِظَ (yaqiẓa) (Arabic), يَقُظَ (yaquẓa) (Arabic), (xǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), bdít [imperfective] (Czech), waken (Dutch), olla hereillä (Finnish), valvoa (Finnish), veiller (French), wachen (German), ébren van (Hungarian), 起きる (okiru) (alt: おきる) (Japanese), obudzony [masculine] (Polish), a fi treaz (Romanian), бо́дрствовать (bódrstvovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), бдеть (bdetʹ) [dated, imperfective] (Russian), thức (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-be_awake-en-verb-tKit-sMc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Translation hubs

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to not sleep",
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      "sense": "to not sleep",
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      "word": "бдеть"
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