reawoke

verb

variants or reawaked
past tense of reawake
as in reawakened

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reawoke
  1. set off
  2. revived
  3. resurrected
  4. turned on
  5. refreshed
  6. recreated
  7. renewed
  8. infused
Verb
  • In Canton, Ohio, a 46-year-old woman was shot in the back while asleep in bed after a man and others reportedly fired weapons into the air and set off fireworks to celebrate the holiday late Friday night.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Kevin Pina’s rocket set off an eruption of joy, only for Cape Verde to trail at half-time mostly because of Maximiliano Araujo, the only Uruguay attacker showing any semblance of form.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of set off
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  • The film was originally set to be directed by Melanie Laurent, but was put on hold during the pandemic and later revived with Morris directing.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 10 July 2026
  • Gounder now wonders if Wahl would have revived his attempt, from 15 years ago, to run for FIFA president.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 July 2026
Definition of revived
Verb
  • Ford made a normal-looking F-150 that just happened to be electric and resurrected the Lightning nameplate, then killed it.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 9 July 2026
  • There’s also plenty of Duncan Idaho, the fearsome warrior who died defending Paul and his mother (Rebecca Ferguson), and who has been resurrected as a ghola.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 July 2026
Definition of resurrected
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  • We were really turned on by that and started doing it ourselves.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • Advanced models can be turned on critical infrastructure or used to probe nuclear command and control systems, and this is not hypothetical.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of turned on
Verb
  • This past month, when the entire city was in the grip of basketball mania, my eyes have felt newly refreshed by the abundance of royal blue and traffic-cone orange on the streets.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • The room grew louder as cocktails were refreshed and guests swapped favorite bites.
    — Karen Yuan, Vogue, 3 July 2026
Definition of refreshed
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  • Garrod also recreated Renna’s first design, and bestseller, the gold coffee bean seashell on the walls of the space.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
  • The rig even measures the shadows between fingers and other body parts, so they can be recreated with perfect accuracy.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Definition of recreated
Verb
  • The Vatican’s declaration has renewed attention on one of the Charlotte region’s most complex corners of Catholic life.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
  • In February 2026, Deadline confirmed that Dark Winds had been renewed for a fifth season, which is slated to premiere in 2027.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
Definition of renewed
Verb
  • The soup’s tomato juice base is infused with cocktail sauce ingredients, including horseradish, lemon and Worcestershire sauce.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • This infused all aspects of monastic life—prayers, of course, but meals, work, sleep, and conversations as well.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Definition of infused
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