as in woke
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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Recent Examples of knocked up
Meanwhile, while Miranda busies herself with building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, has knocked up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients.
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Julia, worried, maintains that she’s not knocked up.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Julia, worried, maintains that she’s not knocked up.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked up
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Friend Ellen DeGeneres also gave a shoutout through a candid video shared on Instagram, in which the former talk show host woke Kris up from a nap by singing in her ear.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Here she is being woke in the name of destroying her enemies, most of whom the show has given us very little reason to root for.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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In one lane there is Mamdani, a 34-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America whose online fluency and pledges to attack New York's rising costs for regular people has awakened a new generation of progressives ready for their own populist movement.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Those spirits were awakened by several methods, from burying the packet in the ground, to tying macrame-like knots onto the parcels, to driving nails into the amulet—all to fulfill the requests of Congolese practitioners.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Oct. 2025
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But during her absence, Tankie awoke from his dormant slumber.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Sagua de Tánamo, a town in Holguín province, awoke to flooding of the Sagua River.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Knocked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocked%20up. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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