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Wake up
A phrasal verb meaning to stop sleeping. It is intransitive here: you wake up, you do not wake up something. The past form is irregular: woke up.
Examples in context
I wake up at seven every morning.
I wake up at seven every morning.
She wakes up before the alarm rings.
She wakes up before the alarm rings.
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