Word Finder - waked

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(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

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I woke up at four o'clock this morning.

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(often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

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The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.

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To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

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

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To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.

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To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

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To be or remain awake; not to sleep.

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To be alert; to keep watch

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Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.

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

Usually the red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius) waked me in the dawn, coursing over the roof and up and down the sides of the house, as if sent out of the woods for this purpose.

Richer, however, makes no mention of this event; and it is only from allusions in Gerbert's letters that we learn how the new abbot's attempts to enforce his dues waked a spirit of discontent which at last drove him in November 983 to take refuge with his old patron Adalbero.

Next morning it was I who waked the whole family with my first "Merry Christmas!"

And now to-night my flute has waked the echoes over that very water.

I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and had dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.

Little Nicholas, who had just waked up in a cold perspiration, sat up in bed and gazed before him with wide-open eyes.

She knew how Nicholas disliked being waked.

Some give directions to be waked every half-hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.