Synonyms of woke

woke

verb

variants also waked

past tense of wake

1

as in awoke

to cause to stop sleeping

my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife

Synonyms & Similar Words

• awoke
• awakened
• awaked
• aroused
• wakened
• roused
• stirred
• knocked up
• raised
• excited
• disturbed
• revived
• provoked
• stimulated
• rousted
• routed
• reawakened
• agitated
• rewoke
• bestirred
• rewaked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lulled
• hypnotized
• mesmerized

2

as in awaked

to cease to be asleep

I woke with a start when the door slammed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• awoke
• awaked
• awakened
• roused
• wakened
• aroused
• rose
• arose
• rolled out
• watched
• got up
• turned out
• reawakened
• revived
• stirred
• rewoke
• uprose
• rewaked
• shifted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slept
• nodded
• rested
• dozed
• dropped off
• napped
• slumbered
• snoozed
• retired
• turned in
• conked (off or out)
• couched
• flopped
• bedded (down)
• slept in
• catnapped
• lay up
• overslept
• sacked out
• dossed (down)
• kipped (down)

3

as in alerted

to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk

a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• alerted
• warned
• cautioned
• forewarned
• advised
• predicted
• informed
• notified
• forecasted
• prophesied
• presaged
• foretold
• apprised
• forecast
• augured
• admonished
• tipped (off)
• harbingered
• prognosticated
• foreshadowed
• portended
• boded
• foreboded
• forboded
• foretokened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• risked
• imperiled
• imperilled