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rewake

rewake verb: to wake again.

Verb

rewake (third-person singular simple present rewakes, present participle rewaking, simple past rewoke or rewaked, past participle rewoken or rewaked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To wake again.
    • The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter III, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Forms of rewake

third-person singular presentrewakes
present participlerewaking
pastrewoke
pastrewaked
past participlerewoken
past participlerewaked

Origin of rewake

From re- + wake.

Questions about rewake

What does rewake mean?
Rewake means to wake again.
What part of speech is rewake?
Rewake is a verb.
What is the past tense of rewake?
The past tense of rewake is rewoke.

Words near rewake in the dictionary

  1. rewading
  2. rewager
  3. rewagered
  4. rewagering
  5. rewagers
  6. rewake
  7. rewaked
  8. rewaken
  9. rewakened
  10. rewakening
  11. rewakenings

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