Word Finder - woken

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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.

You've just woken up to the sound of your cat hacking up a symphony and you get up to investigate.

If you've ever woken in the middle of night to brutal pain in your calf muscle, a list of cures for leg cramps is something you want to keep handy.

Your child might dislike being awoken during an episode, or may become very uncomfortable if woken up.

She'd woken cradled in his arms.

This swift uppercut to his own jaw seems to have woken him to the absence of an opponent.

It 's 2.30am on a freezing January morning and the pager 's just woken you from a deep sleep in a snug warm bed.

Those on the felucca are woken in the middle of the night by a strange warbling screeching sound echoing out of the swamp.

Your victim will not only have to deal with bring woken from a sound sleep far earlier than they had planned, but they won't be able to get the noise shut off right away.

The major observable difference between the jerking of benign sleep myoclonus and an actual seizure is that the former will stop as soon as the affected infant is woken up.

Howard Storm, a former atheist, died in the hospital and felt as though he'd woken up but realized that his body was still lying in the bed.

Lightening - Get woken up by lightening!

If you know that you will get woken up at a given time, your body can better relax and get the most benefit from a short sleep.

Not everyone wants to be woken up by an extremely loud noise or have an amusing alarm clock on their bedside table.

Some people find that they are unable to get a good night's sleep knowing that they will get woken up by a harsh or loud noise.

Moreover, the Fitbit Tracker allows you to delve deeply into your sleep habits by alerting you to how many hours you've slept, the quality of sleep you've achieved and the number of times that you have woken up during the night.

Past-Death took him to her bed most nights for thousands of years, and he'd never woken this sated and centered.

This was to be done as soon as they were woken by a doorbell, without the experimenter talking to them.

They had both seemed fine at the pet shop, well they were a little grumpy at being woken up.

I could have coped with getting into work at 7.00AM, had it not involved being woken up by Farming Today.

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One of the first signs of sleep deprivation is feeling utterly exhausted, even when having woken up from a night of adequate sleep.

The second maid had been woken by the commotion and also went to look at her master.

Tuesday, 27 July 2004 I've just woken up with a terrible hangover.

When woken this morning the pathetic creature opted for a lie-in.

Have woken up this morning feeling completely naff again, hey ho.

Fortunately, designers have woken up to reality and stepped up with excellent party wear for the woman of size.

It may also be harder to fall asleep after being woken by louder musical notes.

It's early morning now and the noise of the loading of the pack animals down at Ashenfelter's stables has woken me.

His hair was mussed, and his state of dress – T-shirt and pajama pants – indicated he'd just woken up.

One model is woken from the boxing, the model known as D'Anna Biers.

It's so nice not to listen to police sirens and taxies honking their horns but I'm afraid we might have woken Howie up earlier.

This was a dream; she'd fallen asleep on the train and not yet woken up.

He had woken the morning after a doctor had excised tonsils from his six­year-old throat.

She'd let down her guard to Darian after thousands years of rebuffing everyone else and had woken up feeling recharged, confused.

His hair was mussed, and his state of dress – T-shirt and pajama pants – indicated he'd just woken up.

He was often woken from the crime scene by honking horns or outside noises.

Darkyn wore her out, and when she'd woken, she was alone.