To cease to sleep; become awake, To hold or attend the wake of someone who has died, To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse, transitive verb_ To rouse from sleep; to awake, To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite, To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body, noun_ A gathering of people in the presence of the body of a deceased person in order to honor the person and console one another, A track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed, The act of waking, or the state of being awake; the state of not sleeping