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Etymology
re- + wake
Verb
rewake (third-person singular simple present rewakes, present participle rewaking, simple past rewoke or rewaked, past participle rewoken or rewaked)
- (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.
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