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rewoke

rewoke is the simple past of rewake.

Meaning of rewake

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)

Questions about rewoke

What is rewoke the simple past of?
Rewoke is the simple past of rewake.

Words near rewoke in the dictionary

  1. rewithdrew
  2. rewle
  3. rewled
  4. rewles
  5. rewling
  6. rewoke
  7. rewoken
  8. rewon
  9. rewood
  10. rewooded
  11. rewooding

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