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1
as in woken
to cause to stop sleeping
awoke the boys for breakfast
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2
as in waked
to cease to be asleep
at the sound of breaking glass she awoke with a start
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Recent Examples of awoken
In the middle of the night June 30, the family awoke to a fire.
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Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors allege that in October 2024, Spencer awoke to find his daughter missing from the family’s home, prompting him to leave to search for her.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Just hours after snorting the drug, Sarah awoke to find her girlfriend unresponsive beside her.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
The ghosts have awoken, though.
—Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
At the Nir Oz kibbutz, Ohad (Miki Leon), wife Batsheva (Rotem Sela) and three children are awoken by alarms and seek refuge in their home’s shelter room, which unfortunately has a broken door, forcing a predictable and harrowing outcome.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Residents awoke to an atmospheric anomaly — fueled by meteorological conditions trapping smoke from Northern California wildfires — in which the sky did indeed turn a smoky orange.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
In his remarks on Tuesday, Shapiro recounted how he was awoken to a knock on the door from a state trooper who told him and his family to evacuate the mansion.
—Brandon Conradis, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
On an afternoon when the offense finally awoke from its summer hibernation, this represented a chance for a statement drive in a benchmark game.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors allege that in October 2024, Spencer awoke to find his daughter missing from the family’s home, prompting him to leave to search for her.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Just hours after snorting the drug, Sarah awoke to find her girlfriend unresponsive beside her.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
The ghosts have awoken, though.
—Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
At the Nir Oz kibbutz, Ohad (Miki Leon), wife Batsheva (Rotem Sela) and three children are awoken by alarms and seek refuge in their home’s shelter room, which unfortunately has a broken door, forcing a predictable and harrowing outcome.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Residents awoke to an atmospheric anomaly — fueled by meteorological conditions trapping smoke from Northern California wildfires — in which the sky did indeed turn a smoky orange.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
In his remarks on Tuesday, Shapiro recounted how he was awoken to a knock on the door from a state trooper who told him and his family to evacuate the mansion.
—Brandon Conradis, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
On an afternoon when the offense finally awoke from its summer hibernation, this represented a chance for a statement drive in a benchmark game.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for awoken
Verb
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Weiss will never be woke enough for her critics, and that’s a good thing.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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When people woke from REM sleep, their cortex woke up in the same way, but without the preceding slow wave.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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When people woke from REM sleep, their cortex woke up in the same way, but without the preceding slow wave.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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Weiss will never be woke enough for her critics, and that’s a good thing.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Three back-to-back violent incidents in the space of 10 months have awakened a new reckoning in corporate security that is fundamentally altering the way companies protect their executives, data from a new Goldman Sachs Ayco report found.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Shapiro and members of his family had to be awakened and evacuated, but no one was injured.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Zelda’s barking roused Brunkow’s husband, Ross Colquhoun.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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It was later turned into a film which roused several of the women to write their own memoirs of the orchestra.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Awoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awoken. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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