WAKING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waking up mean? 

• WAKING UP (noun)
  The noun WAKING UP has 1 sense:

1. the act of waking

  Familiarity information: WAKING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAKING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of waking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

awakening; wakening; waking up

Context example:

it was the waking up he hated most

Hypernyms ("waking up" is a kind of...):

arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waking up"):

reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)

 Context examples 

Waking up one morning, “I connected the dots,” he said.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Bathe after waking up.

(Pinworms, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)