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waking

adjective as in wakeful

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Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.

Waking briefly a few times throughout the night, I heard sounds, voices, slamming doors.

She tells clients to open curtains as much as possible to get exposure to natural light right when the body is waking up.

The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the Sherry, naked.

“In his waking hours, Kane had certainly forgotten the sled and the name which was painted on it,” he wrote.

Many times, in his dreams and in his waking thoughts, he had lived over scenes similar to this.

I remember waking up one night and looking out of my bunk to see him standing on the floor.

After the total oblivion of the matter in his waking moments, he will sometimes recall all the details of the affair in a dream.

All this I admit to be the fever of the mind—a waking dream—an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.

If only they both come to realise it in their normal waking states his Double will cease these nocturnal excursions.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to waking, such as: alert, arising, awake, rising, stirring, and wakened.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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