Woke vs Wore - What's the difference?
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(wake)
(often followed by up ) To stop sleeping.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(often followed by up ) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
* Bible, Zech. iv. 1
(figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
* Milton
* J. R. Green
(figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
* Milton
* Keble
To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
* Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
* Milton
* John Locke
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
* Dryden
* Milton
A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
(historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
* Ld. Berners
* Drayton
The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
* De Quincey
* Thackeray
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(wear)
To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
To defend; protect.
To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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, chapter=5 To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
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, title= To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
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To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
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To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
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(lb) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:His stock of money began to wear very low.
* (1804-1881)
*:The familywore out in the earlier part of the century.
To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary. His neverending criticism has finally worn' my patience. Toil and care soon '''wear''' the spirit. Our physical advantage allowed us to ' wear the other team out
(lb) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
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(in the phrase "wearing on (someone) ") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
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To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Away, I say; time wears .
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Thus wore out night.
(lb) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
(uncountable) (in combination ) clothing
(uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
(uncountable) fashion
* Shakespeare
As a verb woke
is (wake).woke
English
Verb
(head)wake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waken'', (etyl) ''wacan * Middle English wakien'', Old English ''wacianVerb
- I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
- How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
- The angel came again and waked me.
- The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
- lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage
- Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
- Gentle airs due at their hour / To fan the earth now waked .
- Then wake , my soul, to high desires.
- The father waketh for the daughter.
- Though wisdom wake , suspicion sleeps.
- I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, / Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Noun
(en noun)- Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
- Singing her flatteries to my morning wake .
- The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
- The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, / Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) wacu.Noun
(en noun)- Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
- And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
Synonyms
* death watchSee also
* arval, arvelEtymology 3
Probably (etyl), from (etyl) , Icelandic ).Noun
(en noun)- This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
- Several humbler persons formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
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See also
* in the wake of * wakesEtymology 4
See also
* flockwore
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) weren, werien, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
- to wear the wolf from the sheep
Etymology 2
From (etyl) weren, werien, from (etyl) , (etyl) gwisgo, (etyl) waš- .Verb
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
Derived terms
* outworn * wear away * wear down * wear off * wear out, worn out, worn-out * wear thin * wear something on one's sleeve, wear one's heart on one's sleeve * wear rose-colored glasses * wearable * wearer * worse for wearSee also
* (l) *Noun
(-)- footwear'''; outdoor '''wear'''; maternity '''wear
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing.
- Motley's the only wear .