awaken
verb (used with or without object)
to awake; waken.
have been awakening
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present perfect progressiveof awaken.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The past five years I have been awakening.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slowly through four long years I have been awakening to the need of God.
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
There cannot be a doubt as to the fact that, while the Turkish power has been declining, the powers of good and evil throughout Christendom have been awakening into life.
From Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Edward Hoare
