Usually means: Transition from sleep to awareness.
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  1. wakening: Merriam-Webster
  2. wakening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wakening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wakening, wakening: Wordnik
  5. wakening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wakening: Wiktionary
  7. wakening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. wakening: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wakening: Dictionary.com
  10. wakening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Wakening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. wakening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. wakening: Rhymezone
  14. Wakening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. wakening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. wakening: FreeDictionary.org
  17. wakening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Wakening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Wakening: Legal dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

Similar:
awakening, waking up, waking, wakeup, awakenment, awaking, reawakenment, reawakening, arousing, arisal, more...

Opposite:
sleeping, slumber, dozing, snoozing

Adjectives:
early, first, sudden, rough, frequent, morning, nocturnal, rude, gradual, religious, half

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Similar:
awakening, waking up, waking, wakeup, awakenment, awaking, reawakenment, reawakening, arousing, arisal, more...

Opposite:
sleeping, slumber, dozing, snoozing

Adjectives:
early, first, sudden, rough, frequent, morning, nocturnal, rude, gradual, religious, half



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