wake the dead

English

Verb

wake the dead (third-person singular simple present wakes the dead, present participle waking the dead, simple past woke the dead, past participle woken the dead)

  1. (informal, idiomatic, figurative) To be very loud; to produce a very loud or disruptive noise.
    Synonyms: raise the dead; raise hell
    For God's sake, kids, pipe down — you're going to wake the dead with that racket!
  2. (uncommon) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wake,‎ the,‎ dead: to hold a wake over a deceased person.
    Meronyms: eulogize; elegize
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