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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked};
     (Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The
     form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS.
     [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i.
     (imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.]
     1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.


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              Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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              And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
              saying, Lord, save us; we perish.     --Matt. viii.
                                                    25.
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     2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death,
        stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new
        life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the
        dormant faculties.
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              I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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              It way awake my bounty further.       --Shak.
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              No sunny gleam awakes the trees.      --Keble.
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