Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "waked" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of wake. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "waked" in a sentence
  • "Then I went to my usual refuge, and, fully intending to keep awake, as a sort of vigil appropriate to the occasion, fell fast asleep and dreamed propitious dreams till my rosy-faced cousin waked me with a kiss."
  • "At night the dead body is waked, that is to say, all the friends and neighbours of the deceased collect in a barn or stable, where the corpse is laid upon some boards, or an unhinged door, supported upon stools, the face exposed, the rest of the body covered with a white sheet."
  • "My calling waked Mr. Wortley, and he was much more surprised than myself at the situation we were in, and assured me that he had passed the Alps five times in different places, without ever having gone a road so dangerous."
Words like "waked"