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Waking   /wˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Wake  v. t.  (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)  
1.
To rouse from sleep; to awake. "The angel... came again and waked me."
2.
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." "Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage." "Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm."
3.
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. "To second life Waked in the renovation of the just."
4.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.


Wake  v. i.  (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)  
1.
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. "The father waketh for the daughter." "Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps." "I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it."
2.
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels."
3.
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; often with up. "He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology."
4.
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. "Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked." "Then wake, my soul, to high desires."


noun
Waking  n.  
1.
The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
2.
A watch; a watching. (Obs.) "Bodily pain... standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." "In the fourth waking of the night."





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"Waking" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a bow towards the hut. And then again, almost instantly, as he stood gazing at her in dismay, she turned sharp round, and began to run away in the opposite direction like a deer. And as if waking from a dream, he began to pursue her. And he overtook her, and laid his hand upon her shoulder, as if to say: Whither art thou hastening without looking where ...
— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown
... newspaper in the doctor's hands. Over yonder in the dark, crowded, populous quarters, in the Paris of tradesmen and workmen, they know nothing of the pretty morning mist that loiters on the broad avenues; the bustle of the waking hours, the passing and repassing of market-gardeners' wagons, omnibuses, drays loaded with old iron, soon chop it and rend it and scatter it. Each passer-by carries away a little of it on a threadbare ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... glad to see Mr Ward, R. A., again in the Exhibition. His "Virgil's Bulls," is a subject poetically conceived. The whole landscape is in sympathy, waking, watchful sympathy, with the bulls in their conflict. Not a tree, nor a hill, nor a cloud in the sky but looks on as a spectator. All is in keeping. There is no violence in the colour, nothing to distract the attention ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... had gone the women sat about and moaned and wailed until Jane thought that she should go mad; but, knowing that they were doing it all out of the kindness of their hearts, she endured the frightful waking nightmare of those awful hours in ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Jacob was shown to his room, and being fatigued he soon fell asleep, not waking till seven in ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret • Horatio Alger


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