Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: waking
IPA transcription: [w'eɪkɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: waking, wakeful
    Meaning: marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: waking
    Meaning: the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking"
Usage examples
  • But avaunt! ye waking dreams!
  • It haunted his waking hours and obsessed his nights.
  • And something did seem to be getting into, or waking up in, him.
  • He said it was a plot to deprive him of his living by waking up the corpses.
  • And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion--"
  • I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
  • Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?
  • Rosalie thought her mother was asleep, and crept on tiptoe to her side, fearful of waking her.
  • The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.
  • During my waking hours she was constantly the subject of my thoughts, and when I slept her dear face haunted my dreams.