| Pronunciation: | | w'eyking
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WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking" |
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WAKING is a 6 letter word that starts with W. |
| | Antonyms: | | sleeping |
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| | See Also: | | consciousness, wakefulness |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wak"ing\, n.
1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] ``Bodily pain . . . standeth
in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.'' --Chaucer.
In the fourth waking of the night. --Wyclif
(Matt. xiv.
25).
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