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variants:
also waked
past tense of wake
Synonyms & Antonyms of woke
1
to cause to stop sleeping
- my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
to cease to be asleep
- I woke with a start when the door slammed
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- reawakened,
- rewaked
- (or rewoke)
Near Antonyms for woke
- catnapped,
- conked (off or out),
- dozed,
- dropped off,
- napped,
- nodded,
- rested,
- slept,
- slumbered,
- snoozed
- bedded (down),
- couched,
- dossed (down)
- [chiefly British],
- flopped,
- kipped (down)
- [British],
- retired,
- sacked out,
- turned in
3
to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk
- a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving
Synonyms for woke
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- augured,
- forecast
- (also forecasted),
- foretold,
- harbingered,
- predicted,
- presaged,
- prognosticated,
- prophesied
- boded,
- foreboded
- (also forboded),
- foreshadowed,
- foretokened,
- portended
Near Antonyms for woke
- imperiled
- (or imperilled),
- risked
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“Woke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke. Accessed 22 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of woke was in 1972
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