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

She awoke refreshed, and quite early, in time to get the very first cup of tea from the samovar in the common room.

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Penelope awoke the next morning thinking of trains—or train tickets, to be precise.

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The third night she awoke from a dream so frightening she could not remember it at all, save for the sound of galloping hooves.

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She had slept like a rock in the small upstairs bedroom next to the children’s room and awoke refreshed.

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The hundreds of thousands of people who had fled their homes the day before awoke to a very different Japan on March 12.

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Related Words

• awaken 
• get up 
• rouse 
• wake up