waken
verb (used with object)
to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
was wakening
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past progressiveof waken.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I remember listening during one long summer morning to Louisa Alcott's father as he chanted pæans to the war, the 'armed angel which was wakening the nation to a lofty life unknown before.'
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
He was wakening out of an ugly dream.
From Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis
Some new interest was beginning to stir in her life; much was quieted within her, and much was wakening.
From A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
Voices and footsteps reached her across the roofs, for Santa Brigida was wakening from its afternoon sleep and the traffic had begun again in the cooling streets.
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
Her kindly, slow-working mind was wakening to strange thoughts.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
