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How to spell wake up

What it means: Stop sleeping.

In a sentence: Every morning, I wake up with the sunshine. ▶

Same family: wake, woke, woken, waking, awake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Wake comes from Old English “wacan,” meaning ‘to arise’ or ‘to be alert.’ The phrasal verb “wake up” became common in modern English to clearly mean ‘stop sleeping.’

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