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woke Definition

woke (wōk)

intransitive verb, transitive verb

wake
woke Usage Examples

Object

  • morning: The lad was then sent to bed, when he woke the next morning the old boy had passed away.

Preposition: at

  • midnight: But no such luck. * * * I woke at half past midnight after a horrible nightmare.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: Then he woke up with a piercing sting in his heart.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • up: Next day we woke up a 0500 to get an early start.

Particle object:

  • morning: He woke up the next morning covered in sweat.

Preposition: in

  • morning: I woke in the morning with very little pain.
woke Quotes

Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

He woke me from the torpor of the accustomed.

—Warren, Robert Penn

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

—Jarrell, Randall

Browse dictionary entries near woke

  1. ‹ wok
  2. ‹ wog
  3. ‹ woful
  4. ‹ Woffington
  5. ‹ woefulness
  6. ‹ woefully
  7. ‹ woeful
  8. ‹ woebegone
  9. ‹ woe
  10. ‹ wodge
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