WAKING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Waking

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/wˈeɪkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Wake v. t. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)

1.

To rouse from sleep; to awake. "The angel... came again and waked me."

2.

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." "Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage." "Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm."

3.

To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. "To second life Waked in the renovation of the just."

4.

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

Wake v. i. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked; pres. part. waking)

1.

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. "The father waketh for the daughter." "Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps." "I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it."

2.

To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels."

3.

To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; often with up. "He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology."

4.

To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. "Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked." "Then wake, my soul, to high desires."

noun

Waking n.

1.

The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

2.

A watch; a watching. (Obs.) "Bodily pain... standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." "In the fourth waking of the night."

See images of 'Waking'

Etymology of 'Waking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Waking" Quotes from Famous Books

... after him, and wondering where the shop might be, and whether she dared try to get up without waking the Snimmy, the Koopf suddenly stopped running, and started thoughtfully back up the path toward her. "Don't know how I happened to forget it," he said, "but I—well, fact is, I'm—where's a stump? Where's a stump?" He looked hastily about him, and ...

— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker

... blessings of sleep, have been least ashamed to acknowledge their benefactor. How much Statius considered the evils of life as assuaged and softened by the balm of slumber, we may discover by that pathetick invocation, which he poured out in his waking nights: and that Cowley, among the other felicities of his darling solitude, did not forget to number the privilege of sleeping without disturbance, we may learn from the rank that he assigns among the gifts of nature to the poppy, "which is scattered," says he, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... the key of a side-door in my pocket, for we had thought it wise to give ourselves command of this door, and so we let ourselves in without ringing or waking Pomona. ...

— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

... out; they went first to the Rafferties', and saw Mrs. Rafferty spring up and stare at them, and then scream aloud to the Holy Virgin, waking all the little Rafferties to frightened clamour. When the woman had made sure that they really knew what they were talking about, she rushed out to spread the news, and so pretty soon the streets were alive with hurrying figures, and a crowd gathered ...

— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair

... the ceiling which was revealed fitfully by the dying fire. She still felt dead, numb, but this was a peaceful sort of grave, so remote, so silent. That endless torturing thought—the chain of weary reproach and useless speculation, which beset every waking moment—had ceased for the moment. It was like quiet after ...

— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)

Copyright © 2026 Free-Translator.com