Definition of "awaking" []

• Present participle of awake. (verb)

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• "But I was doomed to live; and, in two months, found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon."
• "It opens simply, with small, sweet notes, awaking from a sleep, much as the game does; and it ends the same way, as the game always does."
• "Old Yeller shook his head, as if awaking from a long sleep."