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woke to find
▪ She woke to find a man by her bed.
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Woke

Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wakedor Woke (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.]

  1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

    The father waketh for the daughter.
    --Ecclus. xlii. 9.

    Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.
    --Milton.

    I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
    --Locke.

  2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

    The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
    --Shak.

  3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

    He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.
    --G. Eliot.

  4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

    Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked.
    --Milton.

    Then wake, my soul, to high desires.
    --Keble.

Woke

Woke \Woke\, imp. & p. p. Wake.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woke

past tense of wake (v.).

Wiktionary
woke
  1. 1 (lb en dialect AAVE or slang) awake: not asleep. 2 (lb en slang) awake: alert, aware of what is going on. v

  2. (en-past of: wake)

WordNet
woke

See wake

wake
  1. n. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: aftermath, backwash]

  2. an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: Wake Island]

  3. the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: backwash]

  4. a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: viewing]

  5. [also: woken, woke]

wake
  1. v. be awake, be alert, be there [ant: sleep]

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

  3. arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, ignite, heat, fire up]

  4. make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"

  5. cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep]

  6. [also: woken, woke]

Wikipedia
WOKE

WOKE "Pulse FM" (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 100 format. Licensed to Garrison, Kentucky, USA. The station is currently owned by Expression Production Group of Huntington, WV.

Usage examples of "woke".

The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about the same time.

As I did so, the view opened out until, on the one hand, it reached to the houses about Woking station, and on the other to the charred and blackened pine woods of Byfleet.

On the platform from which the midnight train usually starts he learned, after some waiting, that an accident prevented trains from reaching Woking that night.

Several farm waggons and carts were moving creakily along the road to Addlestone, and suddenly through the gate of a field we saw, across a stretch of flat meadow, six twelve-pounders standing neatly at equal distances pointing towards Woking.

Anyone coming along the road from Chobham or Woking would have been amazed at the sight--a dwindling multitude of perhaps a hundred people or more standing in a great irregular circle, in ditches, behind bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to one another and that in short, excited shouts, and staring, staring hard at a few heaps of sand.

Something fell with a crash far away to the left where the road from Woking station opens out on the common.

In Woking the shops had closed when the tragedy happened, and a number of people, shop people and so forth, attracted by the stories they had heard, were walking over the Horsell Bridge and along the road between the hedges that runs out at last upon the common.

Woking had died of anaphylactic shock on a Syndicate base that Fleet HQ swore the Headhunters had never seen.

The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old Woking road -- the road I had taken when I drove to Leatherhead or they had hidden.

Wells's wife has cousins at Leatherhead, and they, listening gravely and with obvious skepticism to our wild tales of Martians with heat-rays laying waste to Woking, gave us supper and evidently expected that we would be guests for the night, it now being nearly ten.

If on Friday night you had taken a pair of compasses and drawn a circle with a radius of five miles round the Woking sand pits, I doubt if you would have had one human being outside it, unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common, whose emotions or habits were at all affected by the new-comers.