waking

comparative more waking · superlative most waking

1. Occurring during wakefulness.

   A waking nightmare

   3 more examples

   The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.

   1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 230

   Counting occupied my every waking thought.

   a. 2000, “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well, Oxford University Press (2000), page page 263

   It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

   2003, Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief, Mesorah Publications, page 80

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wake

plural wakings

1. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

   […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

   1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144