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wake up one day

wake up one day verb: to undergo an overnight change, often an unplanned one (used with and).

Verb

wake up one day (third-person singular simple present wakes up one day, present participle waking up one day, simple past woke up one day, past participle woken up one day)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To undergo an overnight change, often an unplanned one (used with and).
    • The feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys must have been fueled by some event, as no reasonable person would wake up one day and decide they hated everyone in the other family.

Forms of wake up one day

third-person singular presentwakes up one day
present participlewaking up one day
pastwoke up one day
past participlewoken up one day

Questions about wake up one day

What does wake up one day mean?
Wake up one day means to undergo an overnight change, often an unplanned one (used with and).
What part of speech is wake up one day?
Wake up one day is a verb.
What is the past tense of wake up one day?
The past tense of wake up one day is woke up one day.

Words near wake up one day in the dictionary

  1. wake up and smell the roses
  2. wake up call
  3. wake up calls
  4. wake up dead
  5. wake up on the wrong side of bed
  6. wake up one day
  7. wake vortex
  8. wake vortices
  9. wake word
  10. wake words
  11. Wake's Island

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