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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"The good Parisians love me still; they, like me, remember past times, and the old loyalty is awaking in them."
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
The world is awaking to the idea of union, and these experiments show what it is thinking of.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I remember with what dignity the fairy queen used to reprove the flea for his inane levity: Nay, futile flea; these verses you are making Disturb the child—for, see, he is awaking!
From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Eugene Field
What they call German sentiment is awaking again, and I have been so unused to it.
From Magda A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann
