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also waked
1
as in awoke
to cause to stop sleeping
my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
as in awakened
to cease to be asleep
I woke with a start when the door slammed
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3
as in warned
to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk
a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving
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or waked
also woke
1
as in awoken
to cause to stop sleeping
my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
as in roused
to cease to be asleep
I woke with a start when the door slammed
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3
as in alerted
to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk
a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving
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Recent Examples of woke
Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Blues, who included woke Luddites and other political enemies, would be shut out of the bounty—forced out, in fact.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
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
Blues, who included woke Luddites and other political enemies, would be shut out of the bounty—forced out, in fact.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
Weiss will never be woke enough for her critics, and that’s a good thing.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
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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“Woke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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