waked
Rose from slumber
Waked is a past tense and past participle of wake.
The verb has two parallel forms—waked and woke for past tense, waked and woken for past participle—and usage varies by region and context.
She waked early that morning.
They had waked the whole household with their noise.
Waked appears more often in American English and in the sense of holding a vigil: We waked him for two nights before the funeral.
Stirred from slumber
- stirredMixed by circular motion
- risenMoved upward already
- awokenBrought to consciousness
- disturbedEmotionally or mentally unsettled
interrupted · startled · jolted · shaken · summoned · called · alerted · nudged
roused
Stirred from slumber
disturbed · interrupted · startled · jolted · shaken · summoned · called · alerted · nudged · prompted
alert
Warning or watchfulness
sleepless · restless · unsleeping · up · astir · about · active · arisen
watched
Saw with attention
honored · remembered · grieved · gathered · prayed · kept · observed · commemorated · lamented
wakedslept
Rested while unconscious
fell asleep · dozed · slumbered · nodded off · drifted off
- wake upBecome conscious again
- waking upEmerging from sleep
- wake-up callJolt into awareness
- wake up callAlert that demands attention
- wakeup callAlert to rouse action
- in the wake ofOccurring after and because
awake, awaken, waking, awakening, wakes, wake, awakened, awakes, wakefulness