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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 awaked
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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or waked
also woke
1
as in awakened
to cause to stop sleeping
my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
as in awoken
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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Recent Examples of woke
Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And some people are absolutely outraged, with many going as far to say its new, simplified logo is a signal of Cracker Barrel going woke.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Somewhere along the way, though, the movie shifts from being apolitically involving to dangerously close to woke in a manner far more typical of 2023, when the picture was first shown, than 2025, when it is finally being unleashed on the general public.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
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Somewhere along the way, though, the movie shifts from being apolitically involving to dangerously close to woke in a manner far more typical of 2023, when the picture was first shown, than 2025, when it is finally being unleashed on the general public.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And some people are absolutely outraged, with many going as far to say its new, simplified logo is a signal of Cracker Barrel going woke.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
Instead one was woken into an eternal godlike vigilance, as though the experience of objectification had in the end borne the fruit of objectivity.
—Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Somewhere along the way, though, the movie shifts from being apolitically involving to dangerously close to woke in a manner far more typical of 2023, when the picture was first shown, than 2025, when it is finally being unleashed on the general public.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Woke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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