Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by full consciousness, awareness, and alertness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being awake; not sleeping.
- Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.
- Passed in the waking state; experienced while awake: as, waking hours.
- noun The act of passing from sleep to wakefulness, or of causing another so to pass.
- noun The state or period of being awake.
- noun Watch.
- noun A vigil; especially, the act of holding a wake, or of watching the dead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
- noun obsolete A watch; a watching.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring during
wakefulness . - verb Present participle of
wake .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by full consciousness or alertness
- noun the state of remaining awake
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Examples
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Feelings of failure permeate my soul as I make some joke like, If that is what you call waking up every two hours?
Toni Nagy: New Parents and Sleep Deprivation: What Do You Do When the New Baby Keeps You Awake? Toni Nagy 2011
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Feelings of failure permeate my soul as I make some joke like, If that is what you call waking up every two hours?
Toni Nagy: New Parents and Sleep Deprivation: What Do You Do When the New Baby Keeps You Awake? Toni Nagy 2011
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Dr. Kevin Nelson, he's a neurologist from Louisville, believes a near-death experience is what he calls a waking dream.
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Dr. Kevin Nelson is a neurologist from Louisville who believes a near death experience is what he called a waking dream.
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Dr. Kevin Nelson, he is a neurologist from Louisville believes a near death experience is what he calls a waking dream.
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But dreams are more or less suggested by what we call waking life, and are capable of being more or less accounted for on scientific principles if we assume that there really is a physical world.
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1921
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The parents of a 13-year-old girl believe the cervical cancer jab has left their daughter in what they describe as a "waking coma".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Stephen Adams 2011
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The only similarity i see, between in death and archangel´s kiss is, that raphael is-like roarke - always there when elena is waking from a nightmare.
Archangel's Kiss Spoiler Thread Nalini Singh 2010
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It was like waking from a nightmare – and discovering the terrible dream had been true.
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It was like waking from a nightmare – and discovering the terrible dream had been true.
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 1 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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