waking

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

//ˈweɪkɪŋ//

Occurring during wakefulness.

adjective

1
Occurring during wakefulness.
A waking nightmare
The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
Counting occupied my every waking thought.
It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

verb

1
Also a form of wakepresent participle and gerund of wake

noun

1
The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Forms

plural: wakings
comparative: more waking
superlative: most waking

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waking · Occurring during wakefulness.

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