1. Aware of and alert to social and political injustices
   "The industry is more woke now"
    
2. Perceived as smug, virtue signalling and intolerant of other viewpoints; overzealously progressive
   "the anti-democratic illiberal woke brigade"

1. Stop sleeping
   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock";
   - wake up, awake, awaken, waken
    
2. Cause to become awake or conscious
   "Please wake me at 6 AM"; "The alarm clock woke up the entire household";
   - awaken, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
    
3. Be awake, be alert, be there
   "The guard woke all night, watching for intruders"
    
4. To alert someone to something
   "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"
    
5. Arouse or excite feelings and passions
   "Wake old feelings of hatred";
   - inflame, stir up, ignite, heat, fire up

Derived forms: wokest, woker

Type of: alarm, alert, alter, arouse, change, change state, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, kindle, modify, provoke, raise, turn, vary

Antonym: cause to sleep

Encyclopedia: Woke