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• present participle of waken.

wakening

American  

[wey-kuh-ning] / ˈweɪ kə nɪŋ /

noun

1. awakening.

2. Scots Law. a revival of a legal action or the process by which this is done.

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Other Word Forms

• unwakening
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of wakening

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at waken, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wakening

And then I realized it was just my brain and my ears wakening up again to “this is what a theater sounds like.”

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021

"My mummy went to pieces, we all went to pieces, it was like a nightmare you were never wakening from, we just found it so hard to cope," Ms McCarry said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021

“It’s certainly some from new ownership. And it’s certainly from a wakening up from the league governance side; that you can’t keep doing things the way they were doing it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2018

“As core as ritual is, it’s a wakening practice to live lives of courage. Social justice is potentially more important to shape Jewish identity,” Jacobs said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2015

Then other servants, wakening, came down to build and light a fresh fire at the hearth.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer