waking up
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1.0
- noun
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despertar
- I enjoyed the peaceful moment of waking up early to the sound of birds singing.
It's a little bit like waking up out of sleep.
- It's a little bit like waking up out of sleep.
- But it's also just like, you know, waking up at an early time.
- First, at least no food for the first hour after waking up, at least one hour.
- I love getting sleep and waking up, you know, ready to take on the day.
- Deep, deep gratitude for waking up every day and that not happening.
- It was less than an hour after waking up that he said God you stink.
- And I was sick and tired of just waking up, not knowing.
- So start half four waking up and finishes about half eight.
Examples
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I mean, I remember waking up in the hospital.
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You know, the best feeling just waking up this morning.
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It's a little bit like waking up out of sleep.
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But it's also just like, you know, waking up at an early time.
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I love getting sleep and waking up, you know, ready to take on the day.
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Washington was just waking up and setting off to work.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the morning, he woke up feeling a heavy lump in his chest.
Fiction book (2001) -
Every morning I'm waking up to these ridiculous views.
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Allan was finally waking up to the truth about the woman he was married to.
Fiction book (1992) -
At seventy-eight, waking up in the morning was a cause for celebration.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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3.4
Waking up from sleep
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6.6
A change from sleep to being awake and alert
A time when a person becomes awake after sleep
Antonyms
How Sleepy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the act of ceasing to sleep and becoming awake' is directly derivable from combining 'wake' (to bring someone out of sleep/stop sleeping) with the particle 'up' (indicating attainment of an awake state or completion). This verb+particle composition is a common, transparent pattern in English (and mirrored in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Waking up comes from the picture of someone beginning to wake and sit up in bed when an alarm or sunlight pulls them out of sleep. So, it means 'the act of stopping sleep and becoming awake'.