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wake
noun as in formal observance of a body before funeral
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I woke up to find the ship hadn’t moved for six hours.
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"We woke up at 06:00 and left our children behind in a tent. We left everything just to come to the bank."
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The good news about moving to another country is you get to choose what you’re going to wake up to all year long.
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Who wakes up at six to go football training?
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Survivors described waking up to alarms, thick black smoke that made it impossible to see, and residents trying to reach windows and balconies for air.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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