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Waking up   /wˈeɪkɪŋ əp/   Listen
Waking up

noun
1.
The act of waking.  Synonyms: awakening, wakening.  "It was the waking up he hated most"






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"Waking up" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasant dream, Ali was suddenly aroused by the sound of tinkling bells, and on waking up he saw that another caravan had arrived, which ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... right, Cap'n David, if it were only my money! And it soon will be, Davy; it soon will be. I've just waked up to the fact that I ought to be helping along, instead of hanging on Cap'n Billy. Seventeen, and only just waking up! I've come over to the gold mine, Davy, and I'm going to ...
— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

... said, the flicker of amusement still on her lips. "A man wouldn't have sense enough to know that smoking isn't worth waking up with your mouth ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... strength was dying out of his voice and face, and the old uneasiness was waking up in him. A dreadful expression of pain came ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

... ye!" cried Hiram, waking up again to the practical realities of life at the thought of eating, and realising that he was hungry, not having, like, indeed, all of us, tasted anything since the morning, the events of the day having made us forget our ordinary meal-time, "I guess I could pick a bit ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson


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