awoke

[uh-wohk]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of awake.

awoke

/ əˈwəʊk /

verb

1. a past tense or (now rare or dialectal) past participle of awake

Example Sentences

A Rip Van Winkle who slept through the last half-century and awoke on Monday, Oct.

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“The Makers shut me off, and when I awoke, my body was fixed and I was on this farm. Now, like all of you, I belong to Mr. Shareef.”

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At long last, it awoke the Dodgers’ lineup from its recent slumber, preceding another two-run rally in the eighth.

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When she awoke unexpectedly, he ran away nervously.

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Dazed survivors of a pair of major earthquakes in the southern Philippines awoke on Saturday to scenes of devastation, after hundreds of aftershocks rocked the region overnight.

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Related Words

• awaken 
• get up 
• rouse 
• wake up