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verbrewake (third-person singular simple present rewakes, present participle rewaking, simple past rewoke or rewaked, past participle rewoken or rewaked)
present singular third person rewakes · participle present rewaking · past rewoke · past rewaked · participle past rewoken · participle past rewaked
- ambitransitiveTo wake again.
The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.
1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter III, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)
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APA
rewake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rewake
MLA
“rewake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rewake. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rewake,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rewake.
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