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woke up one day

woke up one day is the simple past of wake up one day.

Meaning of wake up one day

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.

Questions about woke up one day

What is woke up one day the simple past of?
Woke up one day is the simple past of wake up one day.

Words near woke up one day in the dictionary

  1. woke up and smelt the ashes
  2. woke up and smelt the coffee
  3. woke up and smelt the roses
  4. woke up dead
  5. woke up on the wrong side of bed
  6. woke up one day
  7. woke-free
  8. woke-ism
  9. woke-washing
  10. woked
  11. wokedom

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