Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Preterit and past participle of wake.
  • noun A Middle English form of week.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imperative, past participle wake.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wake.

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Examples

  • Then my brain woke up and I realized that I was in The United States and there was no foreign exchange involved.

    Page 2 2009

  • Whoever started the rumor that the republicans were better family members than any other party was either drunk, on drugs, or had learning problems of some kind and a tongue that wagged before the brain woke up.

    Graham: 'I don't think Democrats are for dysfunctional families' 2009

  • The sound of the cold, drenching rain woke us at dawn.

    Fury Jungle | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Then I woke from a nightmare at eight, to construction noise from next door.

    Awake greygirlbeast 2010

  • When Dr Darby woke from the anaesthetic he said he thought his vision had become even worse.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Then Justin woke up in Cleveland with the cell phone barking new orders.

    Brave Hearth 2010

  • This morning, I woke from a dream that I had been lying in bed unable to sleep for hours and it was 5am and I was exhausted.

    Theatre Review: "Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard thingo 2010

  • Wein woke up Michael and ran from the house, but unfortunately their dog turned around and went back into the house to hide.

    More on the Len Wein housefire | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • In the mid 1950s Britain woke up to the threat of an invasion.

    Podcast: Kapow! Fifties Britain versus the comics menace 2009

  • Then I woke from a nightmare at eight, to construction noise from next door.

    Sleep: The Other White Meat greygirlbeast 2010

  • Back in 2006 – when the generation gap was pronounced deceased by New York magazine (and a year before Jonah from Tonga was shown on Australian television to an accepting public) – words associated with this movement such as no-platforming, the use of “a violence” as a verb, and woke as an adjective, microaggression, and cisgender heterosexual either did not exist, or had not entered the mainstream.

    The generation gap is back – but not as we know it | Brigid Delaney Brigid Delaney 2018

  • Urban Dictionary defines "woke" as being aware, and "knowing what's going on in the community." It also mentions its specific ties to racism and social injustice. To use "woke" accurately in a sentence, one that captures its connotations and nuances, you'd need to reference someone who is thinking for themselves, who sees the ways in which racism, sexism and classism affect how we lives our lives on a daily basis.

    There's More To "Woke" Than You Think 2022

  • The term “woke”, for example, is now used mockingly for a kind of overrighteous liberalism; but its first recorded use, by the African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, was meant to indicate an awareness of political issues, especially those around race, a positive usage that still also persists.

    From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them Steven Poole 2020

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