awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
is awaking
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present progressiveof awake (3rd 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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At last the country is awaking, and begins to realize the emptiness of this dream.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
Chaucer is finding his strength by dipping into the true spring of poetic inspiration; and in his dreams he is awaking to the real capabilities of his genius.
From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward
The storm drove him against her, and he clung weakly to her arm, crying softly in a terrified whimper like a child that is awaking from a horrible nightmare.
From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Gradually this common sense of life is awaking the minds of the lethargic mass.
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
And before she is aware, new Tones she finds she is awaking From the trumpet which young Werner With low bows had handed to her.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
