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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awoke

Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]

  1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

    Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
    --Tennyson.

    And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
    --Matt. viii. 25.

  2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

    I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
    --Goldsmith.

    It way awake my bounty further.
    --Shak.

    No sunny gleam awakes the trees.
    --Keble.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
awoke

past tense of awake (v.), from Old English awoc; also see awaken. The tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense (awoke) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete.

Wiktionary
awoke

vb. (en-simple past of: awake)

WordNet
awake
  1. v. stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: fall asleep]

  2. [also: awoken, awoke]

awake
  1. adj. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [syn: awake(p)] [ant: asleep(p)]

  2. not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert" [syn: alert, awake(p)]

  3. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)]

  4. [also: awoken, awoke]

awoke

See awake

Usage examples of "awoke".

What was most disturbing was how he felt when he awoke, it felt as if he had just relived those moments, but this time the emotions were not consistent with how he remembered them before the dream.

From the occasional outcry as one or another of his companions awoke from a troubling dream, he knew the others were suffering from the same affliction.

Sea Wolf awoke at the touch, and cringed when he saw the monks standing over him.

I swooned and cannot remember anything more until I awoke in a dusky twilight.

I can say with certainty is that I awoke suddenly to find that I was being carried along a panelled corridor to the accompaniment of hushed voices.

When I awoke suddenly it was to find a half-dozen powerful men upon me, a gag already in my mouth, and a moment later my arms and legs securely bound.

Our warm orluk skins kept us perfectly comfortable, and it was only after a most refreshing sleep that we awoke shortly after daylight on the following morning.

All the way from the plain where I had awoke to the walls of the city stood booths, drinking-places, and gardens divided by labyrinths of canals, and embowered in shrubberies that seemed coming into leaf and flower as we looked, so swift was the process of their growth.

How long after I know not, but presently a tissue of daylight crept into my eyes, and I awoke again.

It was not sleep, but it served the purpose, and when in an hour or two a draught of cool air roused me, I awoke, feeling more myself again.

After this I slept again, soundly this time, till morning, when I awoke much refreshed, and got up.

When he woke for the second time he saw me, and began to question me as to what had happened, but I had to put him off as best I could till the morrow, when he awoke almost miraculously better.

The rosy light yet beamed like a celestial dawn, and the thunder-wheels of the Spirit of Life yet rolled upon their accustomed track, for as I awoke the great pillar was passing away.

I advised her to go to bed and get some sleep, which she did, and awoke in the evening quite recovered, so far as her strength was concerned.

Then he awoke and once more commenced the work, but on a different plan, and behold!