awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
has awoke
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present perfectof awake (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The master has awoke, yes, and is askin’ for his child!
From A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark, cold and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east?
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The sleeper has awoke a moral Samson, snapping the withs with which the King of Terrors had bound him.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Spain, under the influence of anticlerical laws and a spell of republicanism, has awoke from her sleep of ages, and we note the effects of her revival even in these colonies.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
On Monday the huge City has awoke, not to its week-day industry: to what a different one!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
