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Waked vs Waken - What's the difference?

waked | waken |

As verbs the difference between waked and waken

is that waked is (wake) while waken is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.

waked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wake)

    • Usage notes

    * Less commonly used than "woke" meaning “to stop sleeping” * Commonly used for the meaning of laying out a body prior to burial.

    waken

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
  • (lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

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