Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of awake.
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- verb Simple past of
awake .
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Examples
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But her name awoke in me memories of Alba, and all of a sudden I was alert and serious.
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Amanda awoke from a deep slumber and saw that her alarm clock would be going off in ten minutes.
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And when I was convalescent came the love of woman to complete the cure and lull my pessimism asleep for many a long day, until John Barleycorn again awoke it.
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Yet, for some reason, the top 40 radio station in my hometown insists on playing your songs with a frequency that would suggest the music director recently awoke from a 18-year coma.
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I thought it might amuse you to know that I awoke from a nap this afternoon, and for the first time I think I experienced what you call "dreamsickness."
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Yet, for some reason, the top 40 radio station in my hometown insists on playing your songs with a frequency that would suggest the music director recently awoke from a 18-year coma.
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About 8 in the morning I awoke from a deep sleep on my porch swing which was covered in hair.
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In a small building nearby, Mohammad Arif, a police captain who had been on duty since the previous morning, awoke from a nap.
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When the alarm went off this morning, I awoke from a dream in which I was cutting and pasting student records in Excel.
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When the alarm went off this morning, I awoke from a dream in which I was cutting and pasting student records in Excel.
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