awoke
- 1Past tense of awake.
She awoke to the smell of coffee drifting up from the kitchen.
Her letter awoke memories he had kept buried for decades.
Note
One past form serves every side of awake. Without an object it is the sleeper's own waking (she awoke at dawn); with one, something else does the waking (the storm awoke the baby). The same split runs through the figurative uses: an old interest awoke after years, or a speech awoke a town from its long inaction.
- 2Past participle of awake. Rare; the usual past participle is awoken.
He had awoke before the alarm and lay listening to the rain.
The story had awoke a curiosity in her that lasted for years.
Note
The spelling of the simple past does a participle's job here, after has, have or had: she had awoke before dawn, the news has awoke old fears. In that role the form is rare, so readers notice it; nothing in its meaning changes, and it takes an object or stands alone just as the past form does.
awoke is a form of awake
awake, verb: To become conscious again after a period of sleep. Full entry
- Spelling
- awake → awoke: irregular (no -ed)
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