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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He should have liked best to have awoke the steward at once to obtain information; painful impatience, which he could not subdue, had taken possession of him.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
He knocked with a perturbed violence, till the Seven Sleepers themselves would have awoke at the din.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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
A few of these unfortunate women have awoke from their momentary trance, and quickly returned to the dress of decent society; but we saw yesterday many disciples of the Bloomer school at the Tabernacle.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“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
