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WAKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of remaining awake
Example:
days of danger and nights of waking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("waking" is a kind of...):
consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waking"):
wakefulness (a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world)
Antonym:
sleeping (the state of being asleep)
Derivation:
wake (be awake, be alert, be there)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by full consciousness or alertness
Example:
worked every moment of my waking hours
Synonyms:
wakeful; waking
Classified under:
Similar:
awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb wake
Context examples:
The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) Prevented you from feeling rested upon waking in the morning?
(OAB-q - Prevented You From Feeling Rested Upon Waking, NCI Thesaurus)
How did I cling to their dear forms, as sometimes they haunted even my waking hours, and persuade myself that they still lived!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Up and about more than 50% of waking hours.
(ECOG Performance Status 2, NCI Thesaurus)
Besides falling in and out of consciousness, there may be problems with: • Attention and awareness • Thinking and memory • Emotion • Muscle control • Sleeping and waking
(Delirium, NIH)
However, upon waking, I found myself much recovered.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Nor did he open his eyes till roused by the noises of the waking camp.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Waking up one morning, “I connected the dots,” he said.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The state of being alert and ready to respond, or waking from sleep.
(Alert, NCI Dictionary)
He could joyfully have spent all his waking hours upon any one of his pursuits.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Henry groaned as he passed from sleep to waking, and demanded, "What's wrong now?"
(White Fang, by Jack London)
