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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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
The day which had dawned so still and gloomy was wakening to something like wildness, threatening, brightening, gusty, when they stepped out of the train upon the platform of the San Mateo station.
From The Coast of Chance by Clarence F. Underwood
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
But she loved him all the better for his sullenness; for it showed that his English heart was wakening again, sound and strong.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Already the daylight was wakening others than these foolish barefooted waifs.
From An Australian Lassie by A.J. (Alfred J.) Johnson
