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woken

verbverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwəʊ.kən//
  • United States//ˈwoʊ.kən//

To make or become woke or woker.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of wakepast participle of wake

Etymology

Morphologically woke + -n.

verb

  1. 1

    To make or become woke or woker.

    The “wokening” industry swallowed Orr's latest incarnation—the new, improved Rory Rabineau—as a perfect antidote to the perceived poison of his uninsurable “mental instability.”

    Which is why progressivism ain't no religion; it's a cult. Instead of the Ten Commandments, it's political correctness. Instead of any meaningful spiritual awakening, it's a performative woke'''ning.

    Instead of a grim reminder of reality in which the Black hero survives the ordeal only to be wrongfully dispatched by police—à la Night of the Living Dead—Get Out exudes the hope of an ever-wokening world.

Etymology

From woke + -en.

Forms

past tense
wokened
past participle
wokened
present participle
wokening
third person singular
wokens
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).