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wake (sb) up
[ M ] STOP SLEEPING
1. to (cause to) become conscious after sleeping
• Come on, wake up - breakfast is ready.
• He woke himself up with his own snoring!, wake (sb) up
[ M ] REACT
2. to start to react to a situation after a period in which you have done very little, or to make someone start to react to a situation
• Companies need to wake up and take notice of the public's increasing concern with the environment., wake up to sth
to start to understand that a situation or problem exists
• Governments are finally waking up to the fact that the environment should be cleaned up.
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