Past tense of 'wake', meaning to stop sleeping or to wake someone else up.
From Old English 'wacan' meaning to watch or wake, with Germanic roots. Modern English uses both 'woke' and 'waked' as past tense forms.
'Waked' is the regular past tense, but 'woke' has become standard in modern English—yet 'woke' originally meant something different (alert/aware), showing how irregular verbs take over even when regular forms work perfectly fine.
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