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
The pair collided with such force that Dumoulin got knocked up about two feet in the air before landing hard on his padded backside.
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
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.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Julia, worried, maintains that she’s not knocked up.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
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.
—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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Meanwhile, American families are getting squeezed by high gas prices, unaffordable housing, soaring grocery bills and out-of-touch politicians who are more focused on woke ideology than on real solutions.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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That was right in the middle of the full-on woke era where normally these covers were reserved for trans models.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Even stranger was the beeping that awakened Lassiter one morning.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Rita Vega, 35, who lives on the second floor, was awakened by the smoke detectors.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Mamun's family awoke on March 9 to phone calls saying the 35-year-old had been hurt.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 May 2026
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When the sun rose over Baltimore on Sunday morning, the Red Sox awoke with a lingering sense of disbelief.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Knocked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocked%20up. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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