waked

Verb

wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked or (now colloquial) woke)

1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
   • I woke up at four o'clock this morning.

   Synonyms:

   get up, stir

2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
   • The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.

   Synonyms:

   awaken, rouse, arouse, awake, bring round, cry, knock up, roust, uprouse, wake up

3. (figuratively, transitive) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
   • Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake
     My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 59

   Synonyms:

   awaken, rouse, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about

4. (figuratively, intransitive) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
   • and gentle Aires due at thir hour
     To fan the Earth now wak'd,1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

   Synonyms:

   quicken, start, startle

5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
   • Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured^([sic]) to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet

   Synonyms:

   bewake, watch

6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
   • The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away sleepe;1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 42:9

   Synonyms:

   stay up, watch

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