unsleep

unsleep means sleeplessness; wakefulness.

Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, unsleep ranks #454 of 42,762 for Qualifying.

Etymology

From un- + sleep.

noun

Sleeplessness; wakefulness.
A sleeplike state that is not true sleep.e.g.“Deeper than self entirely, made transparent, The dreamer enters unsleep, a new zone, And in so doing, climbs !” — 2004, Richard Burns, Richard Berengarten, For the Living: Longer Poems 1965-2000, page 149:

To be wakeful.
To awaken; to become wakeful.e.g.“He said: "I are sorry, but Ravager is big strong dog. He will be all right soon." […] I sat with, in case he might unsleep.” — 1930 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Toby Dog”, in Thy Servant a Dog […], London: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1931, →OCLC, page 91:
To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep.e.g.“And into this chancy sphere we have come, into playtime of desires that destroy or unsleep us.” — 1974, Hugo Manning, This Room Before Sunrise, page 33:

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