Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of one who wakens; the act of ceasing from sleep.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.
  • noun (Scots Law) The revival of an action.

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  • verb Present participle of waken.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of waking

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Examples

  • And where the soul shall find its youth, as wakening from a dream, –

    Records of Woman, With Other Poems 1828

  • They serenade us all, wakening us midst the urban din to a sweet sonorous opera.

    Jill Lynne: Habitat: Public vs. Private and Trees Jill Lynne 2011

  • The connection between night nursing and frequent wakening seems clear to me.

    Psst, Shhh, Hey: WE’RE SLEEPING | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • The Republicans and the Teabaggers are in for a rude wakening.

    Rossi to the Rescue? « PubliCola 2010

  • He exhaled the decidedly devious request for those same lips to be wrapped around his wakening dick, replacing them with a more apropos, stranger-friendly query.

    I.O.U. Elle 2011

  • But there is surely something more causing this uplifting of the spirit and this wakening sense of joyful anticipation.

    Country diary: South Uist 2011

  • They set off through the wakening streets and this picture captures them about halfway in their round.

    Family life 2011

  • They serenade us all, wakening us midst the urban din to a sweet sonorous opera.

    Jill Lynne: Habitat: Public vs. Private and Trees Jill Lynne 2011

  • He exhaled the decidedly devious request for those same lips to be wrapped around his wakening dick, replacing them with a more apropos, stranger-friendly query.

    I.O.U. Elle 2011

  • Most Indian auto makers have either raised prices of their vehicles or are planning to do so to protect profit margins from rising input costs such as of steel and aluminum and a wakening local currency.

    Mahindra to Raise Vehicle Prices in January Nikhil Gulati 2011

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