1
as in awakens
to cause to stop sleeping
my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
as in awakes
to cease to be asleep
I woke with a start when the door slammed
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as in warns
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 wakes
My body wakes me up a few minutes before my alarm because of a weird dream.
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R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
Today's average founder wakes to a cascade of notifications scattered across Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, email, and TikTok.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
When a knock wakes Tom, he’s given a startling revelation by a fellow cop.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
The morning after their arrival, Esther wakes to find Tomás missing—and a stranger at the door.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Tom wakes alone, prays, struggles through a tedious day, and drinks too much vodka out of a Phillies plastic cup.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
This wakes my kids who start crying.
—Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
With a pop, the pumping compressor wakes with startling strength.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
Today's average founder wakes to a cascade of notifications scattered across Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, email, and TikTok.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
When a knock wakes Tom, he’s given a startling revelation by a fellow cop.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
The morning after their arrival, Esther wakes to find Tomás missing—and a stranger at the door.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Tom wakes alone, prays, struggles through a tedious day, and drinks too much vodka out of a Phillies plastic cup.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
This wakes my kids who start crying.
—Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
With a pop, the pumping compressor wakes with startling strength.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wakes
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Now, nearly 40 years later, the Schwartz awakens.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
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This is the scenario Dalio warns of, namely if interest costs exceed growth rates, growth can no longer carry the debt burden in the way that Trump assumes, because growth is vulnerable to shifts in rates, inflation, or the economic cycle.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Kroger warns that these products may contain Listeria monocytogenes, which has been identified in a number of products across multiple grocery store chains, including seafood and meat products in addition to the pasta products Kroger recently identified.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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As 404 Media reports, Google removed Red Dot, which crowdsources alerts about real-time ICE activity, from its Play Store.—
Senior Reporter,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Making noise while hiking not only alerts animals to your presence but also alerts hunters that a hiker is nearby.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
26 Sep. 2025
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No, Kravitz is an artist who builds from the essence of his music, true rock ‘n’ roll, creating a live show that doesn’t push boundaries but rouses the audience and satisfies our yearning for a real rock star.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Wakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wakes. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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