Crossword clues for awaking
awaking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. Awoke, Awaked; p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]
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To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
--Tennyson.And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
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To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
--Goldsmith.It way awake my bounty further.
--Shak.No sunny gleam awakes the trees.
--Keble.
Wiktionary
n. An act of awake, or ceasing to sleep. vb. (present participle of awake English)
Usage examples of "awaking".
And now he was equally resentful of awaking, for he had found his fabulous city after forty weary years.
This cat had howled at some unknown hour of the night, awaking the cook in time for her to see him dart purposefully out of the open door down the stairs.
Next, glorious bars of light sprang up across the eastern sky, and through them the radiant messengers of the dawn came speeding upon their arrowy way, scattering the ghostly vapours and awaking the mountains with a kiss, as they flew from range to range and longitude to longitude.
The engineer was just awaking from the sleep, or rather from the drowsiness, in which they had found him.
My thoughts were too completely absorbed by Henriette for her not to haunt my dreams, but the dream which I had throughout the night was so much like reality that, on awaking, I looked for her in my bed, and my imagination was so deeply struck with the delights of that night that, if my door had not been fastened with a bolt, I should have believed that she had left me during my sleep to resume her place near the worthy Hungarian.
I was awaking, Donna Ignazia appeared, to my great astonishment, telling me how sorry she was to hear that I had not taken any supper.
It sometimes happens that he drinks till he falls asleep, and then there is no awaking for him in this world.
I begged her to give the lay-sister a stronger dose of opium, so that there should be no fear of her awaking while I talked with the young nun.
On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
It has happened that after having given his highness a large cup of coffee, the servant has been obliged to throw him into a bath of cold water, where the duke had to choose between awaking or drowning.
I was taken into the room directly, and though her eyes were half closed she thanked me for awaking her, while I apologized for having disturbed her sleep.
It would appear I was not to be given the time I needed to marshal this new awaking of a talent I had never known lay within me.
Or as if birds in a leafy poplar were awaking at dawn and rejoicing in the sunlight.