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AWAKENING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of waking
Example:
it was the waking up he hated most
Synonyms:
awakening; wakening; waking up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("awakening" is a kind of...):
arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "awakening"):
reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)
Derivation:
awaken (stop sleeping)
awaken (cause to become awake or conscious)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb awaken
Context examples:
Finally, I closed the door of the zareba, lit three separate fires in a triangle, and having eaten a hearty supper dropped off into a profound sleep, from which I had a strange and most welcome awakening.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Impatient in this situation to be doing something that might lead to her sister's relief, Elinor resolved to write the next morning to her mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long delayed; and she was still more eagerly bent on this measure by perceiving after breakfast on the morrow, that Marianne was again writing to Willoughby, for she could not suppose it to be to any other person.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
These she explained to the unbounded satisfaction of the family,—children and all being then present,—and so much to the awakening of Mr. Micawber's punctual habits in the opening stage of all bill transactions, that he could not be dissuaded from immediately rushing out, in the highest spirits, to buy the stamps for his notes of hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And every time we walk is a dream and we are without pain; and every time we fall down is an awakening, and we see the snow and the mountains and the fresh trail of the man who is before us, and we know all our pain again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When he watched the hairy man sleeping by the fire, head between his knees and hands clasped above, Buck saw that he slept restlessly, with many starts and awakenings, at which times he would peer fearfully into the darkness and fling more wood upon the fire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
