waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
is wakening
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present progressiveof waken (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 wind is wakening loud, my boys, The lightning flashes free— The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
From Types of Children's Literature by Walter Barnes
He has thereby wakened and is wakening in the hearts of men a seed his father planted.
From Hope of the Gospel by George MacDonald
Until we mature and the poetry in life is wakening, we are ready to act by a theory; but when Nature asserts herself the hard theorist fails to hold us.
From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
