woke

For the verb: "to wake"

Simple Past:	woke
Past Participle:	woken

Multiple Entries:
  woke    wake  

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woke/wəʊk/

past of wake1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wake1

▶verb (past woke or US, dialect, or archaic waked; past part. woken or US, dialect, or archaic waked)

• 1 (often wake up) emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping.

  ■ (wake up to) become alert to or aware of.

  ■ cause to stir or come to life.

• 2 Irish or N. Amer. dialect hold a vigil beside (someone who has died).

▶noun

• 1 a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died.

  ■ (especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral.

• 2 (wakes) [treated as sing.] an annual festival and holiday in some parts of northern England.

– phrases
be a wake-up Austral./NZ informal be fully alert or aware.

– derivatives
waker noun.

– origin OE (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Gmc origin; cf. watch.

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wake2

▶noun a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.

– phrases
in the wake of following as a consequence or result.

– origin C15: prob. via Mid. Low Ger. from ON vǫk, vaka ‘hole or opening in ice’.