awoke
pronunciation
How to pronounce awoke in British English:
UK [əˈwəʊk]
How to pronounce awoke in American English:
US [əˈwoʊk]
Word Origin
- awoke
- past tense of awake (v.), from Old English awoc; also see awaken. The tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense (awoke) to the original intransitive sense of awake and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete.
Example
- 1. And when she awoke in the morning daniel was gone .
- 2. When I awoke , I didn 't know where I was .
- 3. For instance , tim awoke one morning in mexico with raging flu symptoms .
- 4. The little boy of nine awoke and cried .
- 5. Very early one morning four years ago , I awoke with an extremely intense headache .