knocked up

verb

past tense of knock up, British
as in woke
to cause to stop sleeping I asked the clerk at the hotel to knock me up at 7:00 a.m.

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Recent Examples of knocked up In a wacky twist of fate, both of them get knocked up at the same time! — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026 Julia, worried, maintains that she’s not knocked up. — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025 The pair collided with such force that Dumoulin got knocked up about two feet in the air before landing hard on his padded backside. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026 Elle Fanning stars as Margo, a young college student who gets knocked up by one of her professors and decides to move back home and have the baby. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 Meanwhile, while Miranda busies herself with building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, has knocked up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 Margo’s Got Money Troubles is the story of college freshman and aspiring writer Margo (Elle Fanning) who gets knocked up by her English professor (Michael Angarano) and decides to drop out and keep the baby. — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked up
  1. woke
  2. awakened
  3. awoke
Verb
  • The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Lange's husband went home and woke her up to share the good news, the lottery said.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
Definition of woke
Verb
  • Spencer’s teenage son was awakened in the night in 1992 to find his father beating his mother in the head with a brick, according to court documents.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
  • Neighbor Daleon Walker says he was awakened by the sound of gunfire.
    — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 23 June 2026
Definition of awakened
Verb
  • After losing consciousness in the lightning strike, the man awoke and called the Oregon Golf Club pro shop on Pete's Mountain Road, which then called 911.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Five years ago, Florida’s millions of condo dwellers awoke to a new reality.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Definition of awoke

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knocked up
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“Knocked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocked%20up. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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