Past tense of awake; to stop sleeping or to regain consciousness.
From Old English 'awacian' or 'awacnian', a combination of 'a-' (prefix meaning 'to') and 'wacian' meaning 'to wake' or 'to watch'. The word has been used since Old English times. Modern English also uses 'woke' as an alternate past tense, showing ongoing changes to irregular verbs.
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