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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."

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"Waking" Quotes from Famous Books

... the little gray mare with Louise on its back. He had no right to think of Louise; yet there was never an hour in which he did not think of her. And Louise had no right to think of Orlando; yet, sleeping and waking, he was with her. Their homes were four miles apart, although, in one sense, they were a million miles apart by law and the convention which shuts a woman off from the love of men other than her husband; and yet in thought they were as near together ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... she recalled it, but it left her agitated and disturbed. Yet after all she had only uttered aloud what her heart would have said at the grave of Felix's father. But this strange peasant, so miserable and poverty-stricken, so haggard and hopeless-looking, haunted her thoughts both waking and sleeping. Early the next morning she and Canon Pascal went to the hovel inhabited by Jean Merle, but found it deserted and locked up. Some laborers had seen him start off at daybreak up the ...

— Cobwebs and Cables • Hesba Stretton

... roofs begin, a solitary convent parapet, fashioned like a gallery, with an iron across at the end, where sometimes early in the morning, I have seen a little group of dark-veiled nuns gliding sorrowfully to and fro, and stopping now and then to peep down upon the waking world in which they have no part. Old Monte Faccio, brightest of hills in good weather, but sulkiest when storms are coming on, is here, upon the left. The Fort within the walls (the good King built it to command the town, and beat the houses of the ...

— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

... lies now. Her face startlingly white against the mass of black hair. The only sign of her troubled day is a frequent half-sob and the sadness of her mouth, which is constantly reading the riot act to her laughing eyes in the waking hours. ...

— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little

... tomb, but as I stood on the threshold trying to realize what had happened, something stirred by the fireplace and I crept forward, listening, until I stood by the long table beneath the great chandelier. Again I heard a sound as of some animal waking and stretching, followed by a moan that was undoubtedly human. Then the hands of a man clutched the farther edge of the table, and slowly and evidently with infinite difficulty a figure rose and the dark face of Bates, with eyes blurred ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

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