verb
- past tense and past participle of wake; became awake or caused someone to become awake
Usage: less common than ‘woke’ as past tense
Examples
- She waked early to catch the sunrise.
- The loud noise waked the baby from her nap.
- He had waked before dawn every day that week.
- The alarm clock waked me at six o’clock.
- They waked to find snow covering the ground.
- The storm waked everyone in the neighborhood.