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waking (root: wake)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun waking has 1 sense
- waking(n = noun.cognition) Array - the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking" is a kind of consciousness
has particulars: wakefulness
Antonym: sleeping
Derived form verb wake1
Adjective waking has 1 sense
- waking(s = adj.all) wakeful - marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"
CIDE DICTIONARY
waking, n.
- The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. [1913 Webster]
- A watch; a watching. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]"In the fourth waking of the night." [1913 Webster]
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