waking
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
waking
- Occurring during wakefulness.
- 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 46, Number 3, page 230 ↗:
- The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
- ante 2000 “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well, Oxford University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-19-514092-7, page page 263 ↗:
- Counting occupied my every waking thought.
- 2003, Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief, Mesorah Publications, ISBN 978-1-57819-718-7, page 80 ↗:
- It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”
- 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 46, Number 3, page 230 ↗:
- present participle of wake#English|wake
waking (plural wakings)
- The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
- 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
- […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
- 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
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