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waking up

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Noun1.waking upwaking up - the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most"
awakening, wakening
arousal, rousing - the act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions"
reveille - a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise


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Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The horse, stiffening out its legs, with an effort stopped its rapid course, and the officer of the horse-guards looked round him like a man waking up from a heavy sleep, and just managed to smile.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Prince Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it had had in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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