What is "waking" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does waking mean in English? Meaning of waking definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "waking" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "waking": the state of remaining awake

Noun

  • Meaning: the state of remaining awake
  • Example: days of danger and nights of waking
  • Synonyms: waking
  • Hyponyms: wakefulness
  • Hypernyms: consciousness
  • Antonyms: sleeping
  • Meaning of "waking": marked by full consciousness or alertness

    Adjective

  • Meaning: marked by full consciousness or alertness
  • Example: worked every moment of my waking hours
  • Synonyms: wakeful waking
  • Similar: awake
  • Adjective: 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. a. 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: The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.a. 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.”
  • Synonyms:

    alert, rising, awake, arising, stirring, conscious, wakened, getting up,

    Antonyms:

    asleep, drowsy, sleepy,

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