waking
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
adj
- Occurring during wakefulness.
“A waking nightmare”
“The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.”
noun
- 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.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of wake