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awakening
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awaken \A*wak"en\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Awakened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Awakening .] [OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. [=a]w[ae]cnan, [=a]w[ae]cnian, v. i.; pref. on- + w[ae]cnan to wake. Cf. Awake , v. t.] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most" [syn: wakening , waking up ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. n. 1 The act of awake, or ceasing to sleep. 2 (context religion English) A revival of religion, ...
Wikipedia
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Awakening is the second album by indietronica group Iris , released in 2003. Awakening was the first album to feature Andrew Sega , who added guitars and pushed the band's sound into a more experimental electronic direction.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE rude ▪ The only good thing about his rude awakening was the discovery of a gigantic hedgehog behind one of the goalposts. ▪ This rude awakening was, however, still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined. ...
Usage examples of awakening.
After their civil and domestic wars, the subjects of the Abbassides, awakening from this mental lethargy, found leisure and felt curiosity for the acquisition of profane science.
How could this most affectionate of human beings not have been touched by serious thoughts of love, by fires of desire during these years of womanly awakening?
Armament Minister, though he had always prided himself on being apolitical, had had, like some other Germans, a late - a too late - awakening.
This girl, as pretty as her sister, though in another style, began by awakening my curiosity--a weakness which usually renders the profligate man inconstant.
Her maid begged me to go in quietly for fear of awakening her, and then left me and shut the door.
Consider how it steers the body through the most biologically stressful moment of every day: the moment of awakening.
It lay with Mr Bittering and Mrs Bittering, a third unbidden partner at every midnight talk, at every dawn awakening.
My dreams had all the force of reality, till a sudden awakening at day-break came to give them the lie.
In a matter of a few calm breaths Elminster was inside the dark chamber, with the door shut and spell-sealed behind him, and a radiance of his own making awakening everywhere along the low, cobwebbed ceiling.
On the contrary, Duke was so electrified by his horrid awakening that he completely lost his presence of mind.
He kept looking at the control-tower door expecting Erg Noor to appear with his usual rapid movements although he knew that the awakening from prolonged sleep is a lengthy process.
He recounted, with circumstantial exactitude, all the particulars of the supper, the hashish, the statues, the dream, and how, at his awakening, there remained no proof or trace of all these events, save the small yacht, seen in the distant horizon driving under full sail toward Porto-Vecchio.
Small, individual craft took the awakening expellees to their new lives.
I went to bed, and in the morning, after ten hours of the most profound sleep, the housekeeper, who had been watching for my awakening, brought me some coffee.
At last I told her that I had had a cruel awakening, and I saw that the shaft went home.