rewake

English

Etymology

Verb

rewake (third-person singular simple present rewakes, present participle rewaking, simple past rewoke or rewaked, past participle rewoken or rewaked)

To wake again.
- 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):
  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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rewake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

weaker, wreake

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