[Vocabulary] wake up/ wake somebody up

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newkeenlearner

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"We all know that a cup of coffee helps to wake you up in the morning."

We have two separate definitions in dictionaries regarding the verb "wake":
1) to stop sleeping; to make somebody stop sleeping
2) to make somebody feel more lively. OR to become fully awake and energetic:
Which one can match the sentence above?




 

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If you spill the coffee on a sleeping person, then definition #1 may apply. ;-)
 
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