awoke
inflected form of “awake” — stop sleeping
An inflected form of awake · inflected form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,766 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,004 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- stop sleeping also: wake up, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
awoke in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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When they awoke, however, it was with a start and a cry.
Under Drake's Flag · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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The next morning, when the King awoke, what do you think he saw?
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Then the Ka that clings to it eternally awoke at my touch and knew me, or so I suppose.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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When Peter awoke, the first thing he thought of was the terrible creature he had seen in the Green Forest.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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When he awoke, he found that the boat was floating on the black, glassy surface of an immense underground ocean.
The Firelight Fairy Book · Henry Beston · Chapter 1