awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
have awoke
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present perfectof awake.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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And Mr. Arabin—Mr. Arabin would have dreamt of Eleanor, have awoke in the morning with ideas of love, and retired to rest the next evening with schemes of marriage.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
No, Mr. Bendel, since I have dreamed out my long dream, and have awoke in myself, all is well with me; since then I crave not, and fear not, death.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
I slept like a humming-top, and, indeed, there 's no saying when I should have awoke, if it had n't been for the knocking they kept up at my door.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
“No show for me, because about one hundred thousand people scattered over the British Isles have awoke this morning to invent the same insanity.”
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Yesterday, this bird flew before me as fast as I could run, and to-day, knowing that I have awoke tired and cannot run, he flieth after the measure of my faring.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
