as in to wake
to cause to stop sleeping
I asked the clerk at the hotel to knock me up at 7:00 a.m.
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Verb
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The motor runs at just 43 decibels, so it can be used while the baby is sleeping without waking them.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
8 July 2025 -
Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 July 2025
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The defense, with its framing, wanted to awaken any latent unease that a juror—an older one, perhaps—might feel toward the preceding years of correction between the sexes.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
3 July 2025
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What Santana has awakened from the Earth, alongside the continued popular appeal of his art, has stirred other echoes familiar to his incredible career.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Gupta awoke the girl to feed her dinner at 9 p.m., and the 4-year-old remained awake until 12:30 a.m., the affidavit says.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
4 July 2025
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As the sun rose beyond the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in central Washington, Mike McLeod awoke and turned his thoughts to the frustrating hunt.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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“Knock up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knock%20up. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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