Synonyms of woke

woke

verb

variants also waked

past tense of wake

1

as in awoke

to cause to stop sleeping

my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife

Synonyms & Similar Words

• awoke
• awakened
• roused
• wakened
• aroused
• stirred
• raised
• knocked up
• disturbed
• revived
• rousted
• provoked
• routed
• excited
• reawakened
• stimulated
• agitated
• rewaked
• bestirred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lulled
• hypnotized
• mesmerized

2

as in awakened

to cease to be asleep

I woke with a start when the door slammed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• awoke
• awakened
• wakened
• roused
• rose
• watched
• aroused
• arose
• rolled out
• got up
• turned out
• reawakened
• revived
• stirred
• uprose
• rewaked
• shifted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slept
• nodded
• rested
• dozed
• dropped off
• napped
• slumbered
• snoozed
• retired
• turned in
• conked (off or out)
• couched
• flopped
• bedded (down)
• slept in
• catnapped
• lay up
• overslept
• sacked out
• dossed (down)
• kipped (down)

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warned
• alerted
• advised
• informed
• cautioned
• forewarned
• predicted
• notified
• prophesied
• presaged
• foretold
• admonished
• apprised
• forecast
• augured
• tipped (off)
• harbingered
• prognosticated
• foreshadowed
• portended
• boded
• foreboded
• foretokened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• risked
• imperiled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of woke

Birdie cried and slept and cried, then woke to an oily splotch on the pillowcase. — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

Something about that moment woke the offense up as Jeremy Payne rushed in for a touchdown a few plays later. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026

Homeowner Muwafeg Abuhamra said his wife woke him after hearing his mother screaming. — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 29 July 2026

Instead of focusing on woke slop, Sheridan makes stories that demand your attention, have clear good guys and bad guys and obvious stakes. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Many Americans experienced the rise of what became known as woke politics not through government but through companies. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 July 2026

This piece of Florida’s war on woke clamped down on speaking the wrong words in college and university classrooms, particularly about race and color, lest impressionable ears catch wind of an opinion not their own. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2026

Everyone remembers the careers that were destroyed and the voices that were silenced by hardcore progressives in the peak woke era. — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

For the next decade, thousands of Black New Yorkers woke each morning knowing the date their legal enslavement would end, but not yet living in that freedom. — Tunisia Morrison, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026