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wakening

[wey-kuh-ning] / ˈweɪ kə nɪŋ /

VERB

stop sleeping

Synonyms

WEAK

arise awake awaken be roused bestir bring to life call come to get out of bed get up nudge open one's eyes prod rise rise and shine roll out rouse shake stir stretch tumble out turn out wake up

Antonyms

WEAK

discourage dissuade nap sleep

VERB

excite, stimulate

Synonyms

WEAK

activate animate arouse awaken challenge enliven fire fire up freshen galvanize grasp jazz up key up kindle notice pep up provoke quicken rally renew rouse see steam up stir up switch on understand whet zip up

Antonyms

WEAK

discourage dissuade nap sleep

VERB

wake

Synonyms

STRONG

arise arouse awake awaken bestir call nudge prod rise rouse shake stir stretch

WEAK

be roused bring to life come to get out of bed get up open one's eyes rise and shine roll out tumble out turn out wake up

Antonyms

STRONG

calm deaden discourage go to sleep lull sleep

Example Sentences

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Eliot thought otherwise: "Evening quickens faintly in the street,/ Wakening the appetites/ of life in some/ And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript."

From Time Magazine Archive

Echo! in my heart Thus deep thoughts are lying, Silent and apart, Buried, yet undying, Till some gentle tone Wakening haply one, Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying!

From Heathen Mythology by Various

Hear'st thou the horn of the hunter resound, Wakening the echo through forest and plain?

From The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems by Schiller, Friedrich

While I, in feeling's sweet romance, Look on each daybeam as a glance From the great eye of Him above, Wakening his world with looks of love!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Wakening as from a dream, and smiling at herself, she went on.

From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia