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present participle of awake
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1
to cause to stop sleeping
- awoke the boys for breakfast
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2
to cease to be asleep
- at the sound of breaking glass she awoke with a start
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- catnapping,
- conking (off or out),
- dozing,
- dropping off,
- napping,
- nodding,
- resting,
- sleeping,
- slumbering,
- snoozing
- bedding (down),
- couching,
- dossing (down)
- [chiefly British],
- flopping,
- kipping (down)
- [British],
- retiring,
- sacking out,
- turning in
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