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wide awake

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wide awake
1. completely awake and thinking clearly. My mother came into my bedroom at 7 a.m. and found me wide awake.
2. completely aware. You need to be wide awake to the danger of leaving your belongings unattended.
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I recognized the fact that I was hopelessly and permanently wide awake.
"On the Wide Awake all the stewards were young, mere boys," he murmured.
Before going to sleep he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to keep off the flies.
 
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