woke (up)

verb

variants also waked (up)
Definition of woke (up)next
past tense of wake (up)
as in zipped (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woke (up)
  1. awakened
  2. awoke
  3. stirred
  4. roused
  5. stimulated
  6. aroused
  7. animated
  8. enlivened
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  • But this morning an air of foreboding awakened me, and my little fishing barometer was already descending past the 29 mark.
    — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • As the 1986 return approached, people who remembered that earlier appearance likely told their children and grandchildren about being awakened before dawn and taken outside to see a huge, ghostly, gleaming object in the sky.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of awakened
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  • Ukrainians awoke on Wednesday to find that their military had been restricted in its use of Starshield, the American satellite service undergirding swaths of the nation’s defensive infrastructure and weaponry.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The Pope's surgery, which the doctors said was successful, lasted about 90 minutes, after which Leo awoke normally and, following a brief period of observation, returned to his room on the hospital's 10th floor.
    — Scott Detrow, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of awoke
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  • The DeepSeek shock in early 2025 triggered another freakout as the Chinese AI model stirred doubts about the necessity of all that capex.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier this year, Yu Hao, the founder and CEO of leading robot-vacuum-maker Dreame, made headlines and stirred controversy with his goal of building it into the world’s first $100 trillion company.
    — Derek Rose, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of stirred
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  • Peter roused again but had grown more certain since his last utterance.
    — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
  • After Zverev had established a two-sets-to-love lead, Shelton roused himself and the crowd by taking the third set.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of roused
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  • The treatments also lowered the production of inflammatory signals that cause long-term swelling, and stimulated new blood vessel formation to nourish healing skin.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Serra then analogizes the spatial mediation stimulated by Shift to a verbal operation.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of stimulated
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  • In the doorframe was the manager, sniffing around, suspicions aroused.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
  • His efforts, however, encountered their greatest obstacle after World War II due to the suspicions aroused by Philip’s family’s uncomfortable ties to the Nazis.
    — Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of aroused
Verb
  • Tippett’s team animated physical puppets, while ILM handled compositing and digital fire, smoke and explosions.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Every flashback sequence is fully animated, even though everything in the present is live-action.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of animated
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  • Middleton’s latest fall look enlivened her royal wardrobe with a distinct use of color.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The book is enlivened by Andersen’s gift for satire, which plays up the comic potential of ideological extremes.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of enlivened
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“Woke (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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