rewake

English

Etymology

re- +‎ wake

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

References

• “rewake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• wreake, weaker, Wreake