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WAKENING
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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 ("wakening" is a kind of...):
arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wakening"):
reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)
Derivation:
waken (stop sleeping)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb waken
