Awake (irregular verb)

'To awake' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
awake	awoke (rarely awaked)	awoken (rarely awaked)	Also exists with a terminal '-n' in the base form: awaken

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to awake' belongs to Quirk's Class 4 Aa

You may also want to see awake - awaken - wake - waken, or the similar wake (irregular verb).

We are indebted to an article by Richard Goodwin in The Oldie of October 2017 (p. 13) for drawing the last new usage to our attention.