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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"Your young mistress," they said, "has awoke; come in and wait on her!"
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
The wanderer may almost fancy that he has awoke from a long, troubled dream.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
The youth of Germany has awoke out of the dreams of Burschenschaft freedom; and the sounding rush of steam-engines will probably not permit them easily to fall again into this giddy trance.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
The public has awoke to a sense of virtue and selected me for punishment.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Gerald Baldwin
