When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep.

The wake of a boat or other object moving in water is the track of waves that it makes behind it as it moves through the water.

A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral.

If one thing follows in the wake of another, it happens after the other thing is over, often as a result of it.

Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.

If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.

If you are following in someone's wake, you are following them or their example.