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awoke

verb as in become alert or cause to rise from sleep

verb as in become or make aware

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Those who made it to the end with him had the choice to return to the real world, where they awoke as survivors of a meteorite impact in Shibuya with no recollection of the Borderlands.

From Salon

He was unconscious for about 20 minutes, he said, and groggily awoke to what sounded like chanting: “One, two, three, four, five” — long breath — “one, two, three, four, five.”

When she awoke, her son was gone, she told investigators.

Haylie Ross awoke to yelling and someone pounding on her dorm room door.

Stella Thompson, 13, was in a cabin on higher ground at the camp when storms awoke her early on Friday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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