awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
am awaking
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present progressiveof awake (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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God guard us both from love's unhappiness and grant us only its sweetness--which you have taught me; to which I am--I am awaking, ... after all these years, ... after all these years without you.
From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Violette, dear Violette! it seems to me I am awaking from a long dream.
From Old French Fairy Tales by Sophie, comtesse de Ségur
“Either I am awaking in Elysium, or the gods send to me pleasant dreams before I die.”
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
